Osaka Prefecture University College of Technology

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
Osaka Prefecture University College of Technology complies with the Standards for theEstablishment of Colleges of Technology and other relevant laws and regulations, and meets theStandards for Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges of Technology set by NIAD-QE.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:
The Dean of Academic Affairs’ Office playing a central role in planning and holding various
discussion sessions to promote closer ties between academic staff members in charge of general
education and advanced subjects, with successful results seen particularly in mathematics,including establishing the Teachers’ Network for Mathematics Education in fiscal 2012 to create
relational tables on the mathematical content used in advanced subjects and publishing the“Supplementary Mathematics Textbook for Students Transferred to Kosen”;
Emphasis on teaching methods for developing creativity in the associate course, including thethird-year “Interdisciplinary Research,” the fourth-year “Foundation for Research Activities,”
and the fifth-year “Graduation Research,” all of which offer comprehensive learning experiences
integrating knowledge acquired at each level to improve problem-solving abilities in specialized
fields and further enhance creativity by stages, with these efforts leading to a second-place finish
in the Japan Virtual Robotics Challenge and receiving the Commendation for Science andTechnology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the 1stCreative Robot Contest for Decommissioning;“Internship” introduced as a compulsory subject in the diploma course, providing first-year
students with the opportunity to intern for over one month at university laboratories orcompanies according to their future career choices to meet students’ diverse needs and observeacademic trends while connecting internships with creative education;
An extremely high employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation) for both associate and diploma courses, withstudents employed in the manufacturing and construction industries, electricity/gas/heat/watersupply companies, and other employment befitting of the engineers the college hopes to produce,
and an extremely high rate of students advancing to higher education (the number of students
advancing to higher education divided by the number of students wishing to advance to highereducation) for both the associate and diploma courses, with students advancing to the diploma
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universities that are related to the students’ associate/diploma courses; andSustainable efforts to improve lesson content, teaching materials, and teaching skills bychecking and evaluating each academic staff member based on the Teacher Groups for
Promoting Mutual Cooperation through the Survey for Class Evaluation by students and theReports of Class Implementation by teachers uploaded on the Server for Analyzing Survey Data
managed by the Dean of General Affairs’ Office, as well as an excellent system that allows theschool to fully grasp the improvement status of each academic staff member.
Areas for improvement identified by the review committee include:
Some attainment items for both associate and diploma courses not sufficiently effective
according to opinion hearings on the goal achievement evaluations from students and graduates;
andThe low response rate to many questionnaires despite conducting a self-assessment andevaluation of educational performance based on the results of opinion hearings from schoolorganization members and external evaluators.

This document has been translated by NIAD-QE with consent from the college of technology for thereader’s information only.

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