ABSTRACT
‘The diversification of higher education’ is a phrase which characterizes the present trend of Japanese policies in higher education. The phrase was first used officially by the Central Council of Education of the Ministry of Education in its interim report on the reform of higher education, published in 1962. Since then it has been repeated by the Council in its reports on higher education of 1963 and 1970 and by the Ministry itself in policy statements on various occasions. At the same time the phrase has been raising arguments, both pros and cons, among those concerned with the nation's higher education.
