The education ministry will ask a ministry panel to deliberate whether to order LEC Tokyo Legal Mind University to redress what it sees as problematic curriculums, ministry sources said Thursday.
The ministry has found that the university, established by a private business in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in 2004, has given its students the same courses given at a preparatory school run by the same company and students at the university were taking classes with those learning at the prep school, the sources said.
The ministry also sees it problematic that the university gives students video-recorded lectures, leaving little room for them to ask teachers questions, the sources added.
The ministry had told the university in writing to make improvements on these issues. In March 2006, it warned the university it may have violated the law, but the ministry has seen little improvement, the sources said.
If the order is issued, it will be the first such action under the School Education Law after it was revised in 2003 after a deregulatory measure that has enabled the establishment of a school run by a joint-stock company in a designated structural reform zone.
Measures the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is allowed to take against universities under the law have been limited to orders to shut down due to legal violations.
LEC Tokyo Legal Mind University is one of six universities established by joint-stock companies following government deregulation steps. It was set up by Tokyo Legal Mind K.K., which runs prep schools for bar exams and other professional exams.
The university offers both on-campus and correspondence courses focusing on national exams for various qualifications and public service exams. The enrollment limit for the school is 1,085 students per year.
"We will wait for the ministry's judgment on whether our practice has violated the law or not," a university official said. "If we are ordered to make improvements, we will examine the order's contents and make improvements in an earnest manner."
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