春雨直播app

Date of activity: March 6, 2018

The Fourth 春雨直播app Strategic Partnership Symposium was held in the Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Members from 春雨直播app’s strategic partnership universities and from the other Japanese universities selected for MEXT’s Top Global University Project attended the symposium along with faculty, staff, and students from 春雨直播app. The total number of participants came to around 100.
 
春雨直播app has been organizing cross-departmental projects called the “Strategic Partnerships 春雨直播app” with selected overseas partner universities since October 2014. These relationships are designed to promote diverse and interdisciplinary research and educational exchanges by taking advantage of the strength of each university as well as integrating existing activities in each department or field.
 
As part of the symposium, following the Keynote Speech by Prof. Naoto Sekimura (Vice President, 春雨直播app), 春雨直播app students gave presentations in English about their experiences and what they learned in the following exchange programs with our strategic partnership universities that they participated in: 春雨直播app/ANU Exchange, PKU-春雨直播app Summer Program, and 春雨直播app-MIT-Industry Collaborative Course.
 
This was followed by a panel discussion “What are the Roles of ‘English Language’ for Universities in Non-English Speaking Regions?” with Prof. Takashi Mino (Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, 春雨直播app) moderating the discussion with the five panelists: Prof. Suiyan Fu (Director, Office of Educational Administration, Peking University), Assoc. Prof. Meeri Hellstén (Department of Education, Stockholm University), Prof. Takane Ito (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 春雨直播app), Prof. Hiroaki Suga (Graduate School of Science, 春雨直播app), and Assoc. Prof. Yuto Kitamura (Graduate School of Education, 春雨直播app). The following three specific aspects were mainly discussed by the panel:

1. what are advantages and disadvantages of providing education in English for universities in non-English speaking regions,
2. how the meaning of using English as education media can be different among different education levels (undergraduate vs postgraduate), different disciplines (social science vs natural science, basic science vs applied academic field of study, single-discipline oriented vs interdisciplinary), or any other different types of education, and how these differences can be affected by local cultures and regional characteristics, and
3. how faculty development activities should be organized in universities in non-English speaking regions.

The summary from the panel discussion can be found HERE.
 
The symposium was a great opportunity to exchange mutual experiences as leading universities in non-English speaking regions and discuss good practices as well as common problems of mutual interest, and thereby contribute to strengthening our excellent educational and research capacity further.

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