Kyushu
University has instituted a Graduate
School/Graduate Faculty system
- the first attempt of this kind
at a Japanese university - as
part of the overall reorganization
of undergraduate and graduate
education at the university in
2000.
In separating the
former Graduate School into the
Graduate School (the education
body) and the Graduate Faculty
(the research body to which faculty
members belong), the University
is seeking to revitalize relationships
between the Graduate Faculty and
the Graduate School, and the Graduate
Faculty and Undergraduate School.
These changes should promote a
more dynamic functioning of the
Graduate Faculty in its relation
to the Graduate School and the
Undergraduate School. (Refer to
chart No.1 below.) |
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Under
the Graduate School/Faculty system,
all faculty members have been
transferred from members of the
Undergraduate Faculty to members
of the Graduate Faculty.
In addition, the educational
body (Graduate School) and research
body (Graduate Faculty) have become
independent administrative entities.
This new, more responsive
administrative mechanism will
enable Graduate Faculty members
to participate more flexibly in
the education of both the Undergraduate
and Graduate School bodies.
In implementing a
more dynamic configuration of
the education bodies (Undergraduate
and Graduate Schools) and research
body (Graduate Faculty), the university
can more readily accommodate changes
and shifts to pedagogic and research
foci that may occur in the future. |
Chart
1) Universities which have
shifted their emphasis to
Graduate School Education/Research
