The role of university in a diversifying society

- Towards the realization of higher education with an emphasis on individuality -

Abstract

　The educational administration in Japan is carried out under the principle of respecting the dignity of individual. However, it is also true that there is a current situation of being unpleasant in education due to decline in birthrate and decline in academic standards and motivation of university students. This paper is to clarify the circumstances of the background and to raise a problem of the crisis of learning of students due to the fact that the environment is changed to a university from a high school. Then, this paper is to organize the previous researches from the point of view of remedial education and first-year education and to clarify the issues that have not yet been studied.