Saga University's Faculty of Science and Technology will have a total of 2025 female slots for recruitment in 3, including 12 for school recommendation type selection I and 15 for comprehensive type selection II. Up until now, she has been involved in events and seminars held by the Cabinet Office's Gender Equality Bureau and the Saga University Diversity Promotion Office, and has been working to encourage girls to enter science and engineering fields, but she is also working to create an environment that makes it even easier for women to enter science and engineering fields.

 Saga University has been selected for the ``5 University/Technical College Functional Strengthening Support Project (Support for Functional Strengthening to Secure Highly-Skilled Information Specialist Human Resources)'' and approved the establishment plan related to increasing the university's capacity. The admission capacity of the Faculty of Science and Engineering has been increased by 2024 students (30 students for the first semester, 22 students for the second semester) in 8. In addition, as this project requires efforts to secure a diverse range of students, Saga University wrote in its application form, ``We will consider opening an entrance exam for approximately five women in the Faculty of Science and Engineering in 5 (Reiwa 2025). This will be implemented starting from the entrance examination (7)," and has been under consideration to date.

 In the 2025 entrance exam, 3 girls will be selected in the information field in the school recommendation selection I, and 2 girls each will be selected in the fields of information, chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and urban engineering in the comprehensive selection 2. Select. As a result, XNUMX% of students enrolled in the Faculty of Science and Engineering will be women, increasing diversity.We will also encourage students to advance to master's and doctoral programs at graduate schools, fostering highly-skilled human resources, and aiming to develop human resources who can contribute to the development of science and technology. .

 In establishing this quota for women, we aim to maintain fairness by setting appropriate evaluation criteria and provide equal opportunity to develop advanced science and engineering specialists. Please note that this framework is intended to encourage women's participation in science and engineering fields, and does not limit opportunities for male students. Details of the selection method etc. will be announced in the admission selection guidelines scheduled to be released in June 2024.

 Of the nine universities in the Kyushu region (Kyushu, Kyushu Kogyo, Saga, Nagasaki, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Ryukyu) that have science and engineering faculties due to Saga University's introduction of quotas for women, only 9 universities have not introduced quotas for women. The three universities are Kyushu University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Kagoshima University.

 Kyushu University once attempted to introduce a quota for women in the second half of the 2012 general entrance examination for the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, but the attempt was canceled due to criticism of male discrimination. No new introductions have been made since then.

 Kyushu Institute of Technology considered introducing a selection method with a ``female quota'' in the general selection process, but there were many issues, and the introduction was postponed for the time being. (March 2024)”. At the university, the percentage of female applicants who pass the comprehensive selection and school recommendation selection is relatively high at approximately 3%.

 Kagoshima University has not announced the quota for women for the 2025 entrance exam at this time.

Reference: [Saga University] Regarding the establishment of a new quota for women in the Saga University Faculty of Science and Engineering

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