National Institute of Technology, Kochi College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
The National Institute of Technology, Kochi College 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.
It fulfills all requirements defined as the Priority Evaluation Items in Viewpoint 1-1.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:
Teaching methods of developing creativity and practical skills adopted since fiscal 2016 in“Japanese I” and “Japanese II” for first- and second-year students and “Geography” for first-year
students to provide guidance on preparing for the college’s presentation contest, “Kochi Kosen
Unazuku (nodding) Presentation,” with the fiscal 2018 contest held on the theme of “PrimaryIndustry and Cutting-edge Engineering,” in which student teams suggest ideas to address regional
challenges, and teams recognized for their outstanding presentations at the contest can participate
in the Kochi Regional Revitalization Idea Contest, where they received the Excellence Award infiscal 2016, the Kochi Regional Revitalization Award in fiscal 2017, and the Idea Award in fiscal
2018, in addition to continuously pursuing the Kochi Kosen Unazuku Presentation themes, which
led to earning the Poster Award at the 23rd Kosen (colleges of technology) Symposium and otherachievements;
Promotion of cyber security personnel training as a core base school for the National Institute ofTechnology’s KOSEN Security Educational Community project, with “Basics of Information
Processing” designed for first-year students to learn the basics of information security and todevelop practical skills by applying their acquired knowledge to solve problems using
information devices, with these approaches contributing to successful outcomes that include
winning the Excellence Award and Region Award at the 12th IPA “Raise Cyber Moral andSecurity Awareness Competition 2016” hosted by the Information-technology Promotion Agency
in fiscal 2016; andAn extremely high employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation) for both the associate and diploma courses, withstudents employed in the manufacturing industry, construction firms, electricity/gas/heat/watersupply companies, public offices, and other employment befitting of the engineers the college
hopes to produce; and an extremely high rate of students advancing to higher education (thenumber of students advancing to higher education divided by the number of students wishing toadvance to higher education) for both the associate and diploma courses, with students advancing
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to the diploma courses at colleges of technology or schools and graduate schools of science andengineering, and other schools and graduate schools at universities related to the students’associate and diploma courses.
Areas for improvement identified by the review committee include:
Lack of clear definition of the self-assessment standards and items; andInsufficient improvement made in one of the areas for improvement pointed out by the review
committee in the previous Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation that examquestions with the same content had been found on occasion in both the associate and diploma
courses over the past several years.

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

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