PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 4. Improvement and Enrichment of Higher Education
2 Promotion of the Reform of Higher Education
(4) Coping with a Lifelong Learning Society
Corresponding to an increase in the needs of the whole society
for lifelong learning arising from various factors such as the expansion of people's
leisure time, there is a growing expectation that the higher education system
will adequately respond to such social needs by making the modes of learning
more diverse and adopting more suitable devices for evaluating learning achievements.
Also, the respective institutions of higher education are expected to make wide-range
contributions to their localities, as a center of cultural activities and as
a member of the local community.