On February 2024, 2, the Gifu City Women's Junior College Future Planning Committee made a report on the future plan for Gifu City Women's Junior College.
According to the committee, Gifu City Women's Junior College has been promoting reforms such as promoting data science education, but it continues to be unable to meet its enrollment capacity. On the other hand, high school students within the prefecture tend to go on to higher education outside the prefecture, especially Aichi Prefecture, with the proportion of students going on to universities within the prefecture being approximately 22%.
Therefore, as the gap in university entrance rates between men and women narrows and the need for women's junior colleges weakens, we are considering co-educational training with the aim of developing human resources that are in line with the times and creating an educational environment where we can learn together while being exposed to diverse values. I made a suggestion.
Furthermore, he recommended that public four-year universities be established so that high school students in the middle class of academic ability could study locally and improve their knowledge in specialized fields, and at the same time consider graduate schools to play a role in regional reskilling. In that case, it would be a good idea to have a course where you can learn specialized fields related to management and entrepreneurship, along with skills related to data utilization and analysis, in areas such as clothing, food, and shelter, which are directly connected to regional revitalization, and regional economic revitalization. It can be considered as
The committee hopes that Gifu City will help realize the vision of a new ``City University established in Gifu City'' with a public four-year university and graduate school.
According to the National Association of Public Junior Colleges, there are 14 public junior colleges. Of these, there are only two women's junior colleges: Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa Women's Junior College and Gifu City Women's Junior College.
