Foster abilities to use IT and data

文部科学省の「2.Foster diversified abilities to lead sustainable development of society」から抜粋します。

○ Foster abilities to use IT and data

– In order to foster information literacy, including the ability to think logically as a way of programming, in elementary and secondary education, promote development of educational materials by private sectors related to programming education in public-private collaboration consortium, and promote activities to build a system that enables schools to use external human resources. In addition, promote the provision of opportunities to provide education in collaboration with universities and private groups, etc. in order to largely increase the abilities of students in elementary schools and lower and upper secondary schools who have outstanding motivation and abilities.
– Concerning engineering education system reform that is necessary for fostering human resources based on information technology, which facilitates industrial structure reform, such as AI, IoT, big data, etc., implement fundamental review of vertical structures for each faculty, review and implement more flexible education years, such as consistent education for bachelors’ and masters’ degrees, and mathematics and science and data science education, etc. by the university as a whole beyond the framework of special fields regardless of whether it is a humanities course or science course. In addition, strengthen enhancement of the fostering function of global management human resources who have high expertise with companies, etc. and management human resources who lead industry, etc. in local areas in cooperation between universities, etc. and industry, and promote activities for students in doctoral programs and persons who obtained doctoral degrees, etc. to acquire skills, such as data science, etc.

https://www.mext.go.jp/en/policy/education/lawandplan/title01/detail01/sdetail01/1373823.html
2016-06-29