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PART 2 Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 1. Implementation of Educational Reform
2 Progress of Educational Reform
(2) Implementation of the Council's Recommendations


In light of the Council's recommendations and the Policy Guidelines for the Implementation of Educational Reform, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has been striving to implement relevant measures for educational reform. For example, with regard to recommendations whose implementation requires the establishment of new laws or amendments to existing laws, the Ministry has brought 15 bills to the Diet, of which 13 were enacted. In the 120th session of the National Diet, relevant laws were amended for the purpose of: the creation of a Sports Promotion Fund; the establishment of Nara Graduate University of Advanced Science and Technology l the establishment of a new degree awarding institution l the establishment of an associate bachelor's degree to be awarded to graduates from junior colleges or colleges of technology l the addition of fields of study at colleges of technology.

The Ministry has also been making efforts to improve educational administration by issuing circulars requesting local boards of education, universities and other relevant institutions to take necessary steps towards reform, and by publishing various public relations materials.

As for the proposals by the Council which need further consideration in terms of concrete policy or from a medium-and long-term point of view, the Ministry has requested its relevant councils to examine such matters systematically and been implementing these proposals, one by one on the basis of deliberations by these councils.


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