The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has examined the contents of the recruitment for the 2020 international student employment promotion program, and decided to outsource the project to the three universities of the University of Tokyo, Yamanashi University, and Kobe University that applied. We have outsourced the business to 3 schools such as Hokkaido University in the open recruitment in 2017, and we will promote the further securing of excellent foreign students by adding 12 new schools.
According to the Ministry of Education, the examination was conducted at a meeting of experts, and it was judged that all three schools that applied for the application met the requirements. Hokkaido University, which was adopted in 3, supports foreign students to find employment in Japan through business Japanese language education, career education, simulated work experience, etc., and the three schools for which business consignment has been decided will also support employment through these activities. Strive.
The government has decided to acquire and retain highly-skilled foreign human resources as one of the pillars of the government policy.Under the government's Japan Revitalization Strategy, each university collaborates with local governments and companies to improve Japanese proficiency and educate Japanese corporate culture in order to raise the domestic retention rate of foreign students from the current 1% to 3%. I want to push forward.
The international student employment promotion program was commercialized in response to this, aiming to increase the number of excellent foreign students who can become highly-skilled human resources and to achieve the 30 international student plan.
