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To promote reform in universities all around the country, MEXT selects, under competitive circumstances, distinctive and outstanding initiatives from public and private universities, and offers financial support for these programs.
Every year since 2003, APU has been selected for various MEXT initiatives, including the "Good Practices" award, with the range of education and research content of its programs being highly commended. Programs selected this year are introduced below. |
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Student Support Programs for
Contemporary Societal Needs (Student Support GP) |
Aim
To promote students' personal development; to nurture students to become well-rounded members of society. MEXT selects from further education institutions all over the country, outstanding programs which are organized comprehensively by these institutions.
APU Application Theme
Support for Student Sponsored Activities Involving Youth and Society
Content of Application
To reap outstanding independent activities by students, APU portrays the model of our contribution, in which we utilize our experience to date to tackle problems in today's society through extracurricular activities.
We select outstanding practices from the students' independent activities and plan to officialize these activities as "Good Practices." We hope to share successful experiences, which have been born through these independent activities, with fellow students, and we are floating the idea of a "Student Activities Incubation Center" to promote fresh activities. We envisage the establishment of an organization which will positively match the students' intentions and the needs of society. Based on these initiatives, we want to nurture the students to discover and put into practice the skills required in solving the problems facing society and young people of today. |
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Support Program for
Improving Graduate School Education |
Aim
This program supports well organized, systematic education programs in graduate schools to train highly skilled individuals, who will become active in a wide range of fields in industry and society.
APU's Program Application
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University MBA Program
Program Outline
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To foster students in comprehensive management skills, who can then take a central role in resolving the many challenges associated with management of enterprises and organizations based in the Asian Pacific region. |
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To utilize a framework similar to that of the leading western business schools' MBA programs. With the motto "Focusing on the Asian Pacific" for all courses, we offer a curriculum in which students can acquire the specialist knowledge necessary for the many fields related to management from the basics to the highest level expertise required.
In the classroom, students will not acquire just knowledge, but will also focus on nurturing their planning and implementation abilities and also communication, creativity leadership, and innovation skills essential for working and living in the everyday world. The program also aims to cultivate young entrepreneurs. In addition to a rich and reformed core curriculum, various plans including student exchange with foreign business schools and the implementation of joint programs will take place. |
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Contemporary Education
Needs Initiative Support Program
(Contemporary GP) |
Aim
MEXT sets themes related to policy matters of social needs, and then selects and supports outstanding initiatives from the efforts submitted by various further education institutes.
Field
Contributing to Regional Revitalization (Local Areas)
APU Application Theme
Educational Systems that
Utilize Student Capabilities for Community Contribution - Students and the Local Community Create the Beppu Hot Spring Tourism Renaissance Program -
Content of Application
The Tourism and Hospitality Institute, one of APU's interdisciplinary programs, will serve as the core organization for APU's project. The aim is to establish a new academic program that encourages students to cooperate with the community in developing the world famous, international hot spring city of Beppu through tourism development.
This program differs from traditional area studies where students passively attend lectures and receive instruction; instead, a curriculum utilizing student capabilities will be developed to allow students to contribute proactively. Student capabilities will be further developed through interaction between the students and the community. This will, in turn, contribute to community building and the development of a model for community and student/university relations. |
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Japanese Government Scholarship Student
Priority Placement Program
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Under this program, the government selects several graduate programs with international appeal geared towards foreign students and gives these programs priority for placement of government scholarship students. 53 public, private and national universities applied for 97 programs, of which 17 programs in 15 universities were selected. Among private universities, only two programs, offered by APU and Waseda University respectively, were successfully chosen.
At APU, in the Graduate School of Management (Master's Course), the Human Resource Development Program "Innovation and Management of Technology" was selected. In recent years it has become important to foster highly skilled individuals in order to create new value and innovation in corporate management. This program strives to nurture such innovative individuals by teaching about strategies in management, technology, marketing, human resources and new market development. As a result the students will absorb a broad range of internationally viable skills such as creative and analytical skills, as well as learn how to perform tasks efficiently and effectively. |
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Four APU Programs Selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (MEXT) for the 2007 Good Practices Award and MEXT Scholarship Program |
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