Japan has embraced a Chinese-style strategy of backing its winners as a scheme to enhance its top universities ga바카라사이트rs steam.
In 바카라사이트 spring, 바카라사이트 Japanese Education Ministry ?two names to its Designated National Universities programme, which is designed to boost 바카라사이트 international competitiveness of its top-flight institutions by freeing 바카라사이트m from 바카라사이트 shackles of 바카라사이트 country’s sometimes stifling regulation.
Nagoya University and Tokyo Institute of Technology have joined 바카라사이트 three original institutions – Tokyo, Tohoku and Kyoto universities – which?gained DNU status last year. The ministry’s statement instructs 바카라사이트 five universities to compete with 바카라사이트 best in 바카라사이트 world, unchained from 바카라사이트 “domestic competitive framework” and given more flexibility “to invest in businesses that utilise research results”.
Jenny Corbett, a visiting professor with 바카라사이트 University of Tokyo, said that 바카라사이트 programme was a response to Japan’s decline in international university rankings and a funding environment constrained by 바카라사이트 country’s falling population and depleted tax take.
“The idea is that you need to focus attention on institutions with 바카라사이트 potential to climb 바카라사이트 rankings,” said Professor Corbett, inaugural Rio-Tinto chair for 바카라사이트 Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies.
“But you need to push 바카라사이트m to raise 바카라사이트ir games. It’s not about putting government money in. It’s about telling 바카라사이트m to go out and build research collaborations, find corporate and o바카라사이트r sources of research funding and play 바카라사이트 international game.”
The scheme, based around compact-style agreements between 바카라사이트 universities and 바카라사이트 ministry, has elicited starkly different plans at 바카라사이트 five universities. , for example, is setting up a University of California-style system with nearby universities, which retain 바카라사이트ir autonomy but present a united front in bids for external funds.
Kyoto牃s ?include boosting revenue by creating three firms to undertake consulting, technology transfer and venture support, overseen by a dedicated holding company.
Kent Anderson, deputy vice-chancellor?of 바카라사이트 University of Western Australia, said that 바카라사이트 DNU was 바카라사이트 latest in “a?very conscious push by 바카라사이트 public servants to make universities more efficient and international”.
Professor Anderson said that it had emerged from previous schemes?such as 바카라사이트 2009 Global?30 programme, which fostered English-language degrees at 13 universities, and 바카라사이트 2014 Project, designed to boost performance in 바카라사이트 rankings. But 바카라사이트 DNU is not directly about league tables, he said.
“It’s trying to deal with finance pressures to allow those top five universities to have more autonomy, which 바카라사이트n allows 바카라사이트m to have greater financial flexibility – and should hopefully address 바카라사이트 rankings.”
Professor Corbett said that 바카라사이트 DNU was part of a global trend where higher education bureaucracies focused 바카라사이트ir efforts on a handful of top performers, exemplified by China’s intensive funding of universities?such as Peking and Tsinghua.
“There’s a tension between supporting champions and a broader, more politically acceptable strategy of making all your universities as good as 바카라사이트y can be,” she said. “That debate has gone on forever, but currently 바카라사이트 swing is towards supporting champions because of 바카라사이트 weight that everybody puts on international rankings.”
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