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PART 2 Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 10. Education in an Information Oriented Society
5. Making Educational Facilities Information-Oriented and Development of Science Information Networks


In pursuing the policy of making educational facilities information-oriented, in addition to the improvement of information equipment and systems, emphasis is placed on the following points with regard to facilities; 1) the provision of space for communicating and processing of information, 2) the ensuring of information security, 3) the considerations to physical and mental health of users, and 4) the establishment of administration and management of facilities and information systems as a whole.

Full use needs to be made of the function of communicating and processing of information at educational facilities with a view to making educational facilities more intelligent.

The Ministry is also promoting consecutively the construction of Campus LAN or the local area network on campus, which connects various computers on campus and terminals at studies of professors and classrooms by optical fiber, and let various information flow in voice, letters, numerals, still and moving pictures, etc. all over the campus.

Today, the amount of information in all fields of society has jumped to formidable level and the ways and means information is being used have become extremely diversified and highly sophisticated. In order to use information efficiently, the construction of data bases is now essential. In the field of eduation as well, various kinds of data base, e.g. those on science information and lifelong learning information, have been and are being constructed by universities, the National Center for Science Information System, local public bodies, etc.


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