Vice President Masahiro Yamaguchi attended the 2018 Japan-UK Dialogue on Exchange in Higher Education & Research held at Gakushikaikan in Tokyo on October 30.
This meeting, hosted by the Japan Association of National Universities in cooperation with Universities UK, was held with the aim of enabling the exchange of opinions on topics related to the field of higher education in the UK and Japan, and to help the establishment of further cooperative relations. About 50 representatives from universities in the UK and Japan participated.
The main theme of the conference was “Challenges in University Governance / Academic Exchange”, and the participants engaged in lively discussions on the current status of student and researcher exchanges at their respective institutions and on initiatives to expand and deepen their exchange activities.