<Ref. >Evolution of University Evaluation System in Japan
| 1991 | Universities become obliged to self-monitor and self-evaluate their own research and educational activities in line with a proposal by the University Council. According to this line of thought, many universities have publicized evaluation results and some began to publish a "university white paper." |
| 1996 | JUAA introduces a "reaccreditation" system. The evaluation under this system, however, is optional and there is no obligation to announce the results. |
| 1998 | The University Council, in its university reform proposals, calls for reinforcing the existing self-monitoring and self-evaluation systems and points to the need to introduce objective third-party evaluations, thus, calling for the establishment of a third party organ to carry out that task. |
| 1999 | A preparatory office and a preparatory committee for university evaluation organ (tentative) are set up within NIAD, then-called Gakui Juyo Kiko in Japanese. |
| 2000 | Reorganized NIAD, with its Japanese name changed to Daigaku-Hyoyka Gakui-Juyo Kiko in Japanese (English name unchanged), is launched. Evaluations under NIAD, to which all the national universities are subjected, marks Japan's first-ever uniform third-party evaluation system to assess the quality of university education. |
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University Evaluations: What will Become of Japanese Universities?
<RIETI Featured Fellow> HARAYAMA Yuko
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