The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science has announced the interim evaluation results of the 2015 projects adopted in 11 in the "University Global Expansion Capability Enhancement Project" that aims to strengthen the global expansion capability of university education.
The "University Global Expansion Project" started in 2011 at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.To foster human resources who can play an active role internationally, strengthen the ability to expand university education globally, and support educational cooperation with universities in the target countries / regions that study abroad for Japanese students and strategically accept foreign students. It is an object.
Of the 2015 projects adopted in fiscal 11, 2 were the highest ratings "S" that are expected to achieve the business objectives with excellent efforts, and "A" that is judged to be able to achieve the business objectives by continuing the initiatives. There were 8 cases, and 1 case was "A minus" where the business purpose was achieved by improving the efforts.
The "S" rating was given to the "Latin-American Human Resources Development Program for Solving Global Issues by Japan and Latin America" by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and the University of Electro-Communications, which have exchange destinations with Latin American countries. "The global expansion of the engineer education model starting at the age of 15 in collaboration with the NAFTA production base Mexico" by Nagaoka University of Technology, Tsuruoka National College of Technology and others.
In recent years, safety-threatening incidents such as political turmoil and indiscriminate terrorism have occurred, and some projects have had to change their exchange implementation plans from the perspective of ensuring the safety of students. ..As a result, the number of students who interacted with each other in all 11 projects was 393, compared to the target of 382 Japanese students.On the other hand, the number of foreign students accepted was 327, which exceeded the target, while the target was 338.
Through this interim evaluation, what is common to the entire project is that short-term and long-term exchanges and internships that accompany credit acquisition are enriched, and exchange programs with quality assurance are being developed and implemented.It was evaluated that each university was creative and ingenious, and that the progress was generally in line with the business objectives throughout.
