Research centre for Tertiary Education and Qualifications, Kyushu University

In Friday, May 20, 2016, Keiichi Yoshimoto, Director, Distinguished Professor, and Hidefumi Shida Associate Professor, attended the expanded Executive Concil for Jikei Group; It is contributor of the chair of Research for Research Course for Tertiary Education and Qualifications.
Keiichi Yoshimoto, Director, Distinguished Professor, and Hidefumi Shida, Associate Professor, also made an interim accomplishment report of the chair of Research for Tertiary Education and Qualifications.
In this report, Keiichi Yoshimoto, Distinguished Professor, reported as following and raised issue. Based on the quality assurance of vocational education on Tertiary Education, he explained about ①RTEQ and the donated chair ;②The initiative and functional differentiation in central council of education: “new higher education institutions”;③Approach to quality assurance of academic and vocational education; ④The quality assurance bsed on vocational education for professional training college;⑤Approach to quality assurance on learning outcomes and Graduates' Career Formation ⑥Establishment of education system with a focus on vocational education.
Further, Hidefumi Shida, Associate Professor reported of graducates from Jikei Group on career formation and comparison among different institutions focusing on the fields of medical, health and welfare of educational quality.
The report was based on the web survey of " graduates survey for non-university type higher education institutions "by EQ research group of Kyushu University. (The survey was carried out in 2012)
Finally, Kunihiko Ukifune Chairman of Jikei Group, confirms that we will establish to make a foundation of graduates survey in profession training college and vocational education research that can connect to quality assurance through the Institutions Research (IR) to education improvement