National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College
Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
The National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College complies with the Standards for the Establishment ofColleges of Technology and other relevant laws and regulations and meets the Standards for Evaluation andAccreditation of Colleges of Technology set by the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality
Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE). It fulfills all requirements defined as Priority Evaluation Items inViewpoint 1-1.
The best practices identified by the review committee include the following:1) The College has established the Career Support Office to play a key role in career support activities, such asappointing corporate engineers as educational supporters who work effectively on various tasks that include
soliciting companies for the College’s extramural on-the-job training (especially long-term internships) programs,
arranging training plans, and supporting participating students.
2) As educational methods for fostering creativity, the College has introduced project-based learning (PBL) lessons
to all courses in the Department of Creative Engineering. These initiatives have led to numerous achievementsthat include winning the 2017 KOSEN Robot Contest (Robocon).
3) The employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number of students seeking postgraduation employment) for the associate and diploma courses is extremely high, with graduates employed in
the manufacturing and other industries suitable for engineers the College hopes to produce. The rate of students
advancing to higher education (the number of students advancing to higher education divided by the number ofstudents wishing to do so) for the regular and advanced courses is also extremely high, with graduates advancing
to the diploma courses at the colleges of technology, faculties of engineering, or graduate schools related to theirassociate and diploma courses.
Areas for improvement identified by the review committee include the following:
1) Self-assessment is not implemented and released in accordance with the “Appendix to the Basic Policy on SelfAssessment of the National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College” (Viewpoint 1-1-(2)).
2) The review committee is unable to confirm whether the College gathers opinions from its staff members among
all school members (Viewpoint 1-1-(3)).
3) The College’s curriculum policies for the associate and diploma courses do not specify how to evaluate thelearning outcomes (Viewpoint 1-2-(2), 1-2-(5)).
4) The College’s efforts to examine whether students are accepted in accordance with its admission policy areinsufficient (Viewpoint 6-1-(1), 8-2-(1)).
The College’s response to the coronavirus pandemic:
NIAD-QE asked the College to report its response to the coronavirus pandemic, as the spread of infections hasaffected educational activities in unprecedented ways since the beginning of the 2020 school year. Consequently, it
was confirmed that the College is dealing with the situation as mentioned in the appendix.
NIAD-QE has translated this document with consent from the College for the readers’ information only.