Report Pushes Autonomy for Japanese Colleges

A Japanese-government panel studying education reform at state-run universities has recommended that the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology loosen controls on those universities in a number of key areas.

The Educational Research and Development Panel of the Education Ministry said that national universities should be able to establish new academic departments, change the pay scales of faculty members, and reap profits from patents resulting from academic

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