National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
The National Institute of Technology, Kushiro 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:“Fundamental Seminar for Creative Engineering” in the Smart Mechanics Course, “ComputerScience I” and “Creative Engineering” in the Electronics Course, and “Design Engineering” in
the Architecture Course, introduced to second-year students who are beginning to fully engage
in specialized education as creative teaching methods combining basic knowledge in eachspecialized field and reasoning skills, with these approaches resulting in remarkableachievements that include some graduation research outcomes being presented at academic
conferences and other events, and receiving excellent presentation prizes at student researchpresentation conferences organized by the Hokkaido Branch of the Japanese Society forInformation and Systems in Education; 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, information and communications businesses,
construction industry, electricity/gas/heat/water supply 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 higher education) for both the associate and diploma
courses, with students advancing to the diploma courses at colleges of technology or schools ofengineering , graduate schools of science and engineering, and other schools and graduate schoolsat 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;
Lack of clarity in organizations and systems responsible for gathering and accumulating data andmaterials as the basis to conduct a self-assessment;Absence of a system to survey graduates (students who completed their courses) and higher
educational institutes attended by the students, among the surveys of school members and outside
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affiliates, with self-assessment unlikely to reflect these survey findings;
Insufficient improvement made in one of the areas for improvement pointed out by the review
committee in the previous Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation that the same examquestions had been used in some subjects of the associate course over the past several years; andNo systems developed to review the college’s educational goals and three policies while
monitoring social and other trends.

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

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