Educational Policy Change in Need! What the "Establishment of a New Faculty" at the University of Tokyo Means

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✔︎ Faculty to study Design in a broad sense for problem solving and the creation of Something New.

✔︎ Capacity for 100 people, half Japanese and half foreign.

✔︎ The policy is that no general exams are required and all classes are taught in English.

I feel like I've finally made it, but now, now, now...The University of Tokyo.is thatEducation in Japan is on the move.

Since this is so important, let me summarize the points.

If you go through with this,It is truly a part of your child's future.I will go so far as to say.

Perhaps this faculty will become the best faculty in Japan, eventually.Assumed to be in the "TOP 10" of the TOP 100 universities in the world.You will have done so.

It may also be a way to regain ground after losing its position in Southeast Asia to China and sympathizer universities for a long time.

So, hypothetically, I would like to indicate what you should consider in pursuing this faculty. First,

What happens if there is no general entrance exam? Will it really disappear?

The University of Tokyo does not impose a general entrance examination,If the evaluation is changed to a comprehensive type centered on the motive for applying, as is done overseasIt is expected that more and more universities will conduct similar entrance examinations.

Comprehensive selection has already been increasing its capacity year by year, and this is likely to accelerate it further.

Because,Students tend to apply to the same university in the same subject area.This is because it is located in

Then, students will prefer to apply to the schools that can be taken in the comprehensive type, starting with Keio Fujisawa (SFC), which had zero affinity with the general entrance examination group's concurrent application.

As a result, how do universities below Waseda-Keio, which want to secure as many excellent students as possible, act? If you think about it from a common sense perspective, the answer is simple.

So will there be no general entrance examinations altogether?

Assuming that it is not lost, the following is expected to occur

✔︎ Require foreigners to be proficient in Japanese and impose a common test or a second test in Japanese.

✔︎ or ask for a score similar to the SAT or other common test.

✔︎ In the first place, the second test is translated into English and imposed.

What do you think?

Next, if motive for application and self-promotion become an absolutely essential evaluation in the admission process, then finally, what I have been explaining for a long time will be the most important factor in education.Most Important ThemesThe first two are the following.

It is,The "willingness" to be involved in something social and the "ability" to achieve it when involved.It is.

Social" properly refers to the creation of things that are useful for society and the world.

Finally, we need to take this seriously and incorporate it into our education, the very thing we need to do.A Crossroads in EducationIt should be

Education will finally shift from rote memorization and pattern practice to education that will help students acquire the desire and ability to apply what they have learned to society.

That is why the government made inquiry learning a statement in the last revision of the Courses of Study and is working to give more freedom to the educational field in the next revision.

Now, what should your family's educational policy be?

Now it's time to get serious.Time to rethink."Personally, I strongly believe that this is the case, but what do you think?

Then the perspective of design.

The dean is Miles Pennington, a graduate of the Royal College of Art (RCA) Department of Innovation, Design and Engineering in the UK, who has founded the design firm Design Stream.

Design thinking" and "artistic thinking" are important skills for innovation.

It is also the first step in solving problems and creating something better.The ability to see issues for what they are."is necessary. There are logical and chemical ways of looking at it, but I believe that sensitivity is essential.

In Japan, education has long neglected arts and crafts, music, physical education, technology, and home economics, except for the five major subjects.

But can we see the issues without refining our sensibilities?Will people's problems resonate with you if you only study five subjects?

This is why education in the United Kingdom and the United States is an education for the whole person.

I believe that we hone all our abilities as human beings, and that is why we are able to see the unseen.

In addition, there are many ways to output what is captured by the five senses.

That is the power of art, and the form of output varies depending on the individuality and abilities possessed by the person. It is meaningless unless you can take what you have captured and give it form.

I believe that it is in subjects other than the five major subjects that students can acquire both the "ability to grasp" and the "ability to draw". I believe that both of these skills can be acquired in subjects other than the five main subjects.

So I am sure that there will soon be schools that specialize in our four skills, etc.

Now, this is getting long, so I'd like to stop here, but the creation of this new faculty at the University of Tokyo,There is no doubt that it will have a major impact on all aspects of education in Japan.It is.

The meaning of education has certainly changed from our generation, which was trained to think of education as study. It is as if a stick that had been holding back Japanese education, which had been trying to change but could not, has been removed.

I sincerely hope that this change will be a good kick-start.

As a side note, teaching in English also means that it is natural to be able to speak English.

Please use common sense.
What will be the trend in the future?

GLI Representative Kaburaki

　
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