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PART 2 Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 1. Promoting Educational Reform
3. The 14th Central Council for Education


In promoting educational reform based on the recommendations of the National Council on Educational Reform, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture considers it important to examine the ways and means of education in long range perspectives. The Central Council for Education is now deliberating on "thereform of the educational system in response to the new age" with a broad perspective.

The two main issues being deliberated by the Council concern the reform of upper secondary education and its relationship to higher education, and the building of infrastructures for a lifelong learning society. Reforms of upper secondary education being discussed include a more flexible application of the required length of upper secondary school studies, a reorganization of the course systems, the use of a credit system and the encouragement of the establishment of new type upper secondary schools. With respect to the building of infrastructures for a lifelong learning society, a system to promote lifelong learning, provision of information for learning, qualifications of specialists in lifelong learning, private educational enterprises, and the establishment of "lifelong learning centers" are being discussed.


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