The College of Technology was founded in Showa 38 and celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. At that time, we were ahead of the curve and evolved the goals of engineering education that we are aiming for. Today, as educational system initiatives that go beyond the framework of conventional so-called “schools” such as “integrated junior high and high school” systems are gaining momentum, such as “elementary and junior high school collaboration” and “high school-university collaboration,” technical colleges, which were originally created by combining high school to the second year of university, are attracting more and more attention. Technical colleges are higher education institutions like universities, and do not have a course of study like ordinary high schools. As an educational institution that teaches specialized arts, it is none other than an educational institution specializing in engineering that incorporates “research,” that is, issues for which answers have not yet been found, into education. In terms of the system, if you add the major course, which is a two-year preparatory course after graduating from the main course established in Heisei 6, it is truly a “high school-university integrated education”. We’ve been doing this for years.
Toyota National College of Technology, which stands on the foundation built over this history, will finally celebrate its 60th anniversary in Reiwa 5 next year. Its characteristic is, in a word, practical education of students with autonomy and internationality. Students at Toyota National College of Technology are given the experience of working with local residents to sincerely listen to their awareness of the issues and develop empathy while practically tackling them so that they can directly confront the issues of the local community and solve them with technology. In addition, Toyota National College of Technology has concluded academic exchange agreements with the AFS Japan Association, the YFU Japan International Exchange Foundation, and several overseas universities, which enable students to study abroad in various countries. Students are given the opportunity to study abroad and interact remotely with international students, and are provided with not only language skills but also various opportunities to accept different cultures and different ideas and share mutual problems and strive to solve them. In the above environment, it is up to each student to work on each community-based issue until they can solve it, and they are naturally required to have a high degree of autonomy. In addition, more than 40 students study abroad every year, and more than 200 out of 1,000 students in five years have studied abroad.
These days, I’m no longer surprised that teens win gold medals at the Olympics. Students who enter technical colleges with the desire to specialize in engineering technology from the age of their first year of high school have the same mindset as these young athletes and have the mentality to aim for a high goal, that is, to become a first-class manufacturing engineer, from an early stage. That is why, even after entering the workforce, you will be able to meet expectations as an immediate force. ROBOCON is a famous event that represents technical colleges, and now a total of 7 contests are held every year, including DCON (Deep Learning Contest) for similar technical college students. Students of Toyota National College of Technology have also boldly taken on these challenges and received many awards. And even these are just part of their output. On campus, you can see and hear students struggling on a daily basis. Especially I like the evening. The passionate joy of celebrating each other’s challenges and celebrating successes, or the energetic cries of laughter and dismissing failures, echoes through the school building. It is not something that is ordered to move the body by someone, but a scene that appears as a result of each student deciding their own path and working on it proactively, and it seems very reliable.
In the future, as a compensation for the rapid development of civilization in recent years, problems such as large-scale disasters, the global spread of infectious diseases, the declining birthrate and aging population of society, and the social isolation of people brought about by the Internet will become increasingly complex and globalized. We, the faculty and staff, strongly believe that the students of Toyota National College of Technology, who have been trained to tackle social issues as part of their practical education and are refining their skills while acquiring an international mindset, will take the initiative in tackling these global environmental and social problems in the future, and we send them out to their respective paths. After graduating from the main course, about 50% of Toyota National College of Technology students (52% of the results in the third year of Reiwa) go on to one of the leading universities in Japan, and the remaining 50% go on to find employment, mainly at large companies. Graduates also have a good reputation in the companies where they work, and there are many seniors who went on to university and went on to become teachers at universities and technical colleges. To elementary and junior high school students who have noble aspirations and are striving every day to be useful to society, please knock on the door of Toyota National College of Technology. I would also like parents and companies to continue to pay attention to their activities.
The College of Technology was founded in Showa 38 and celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. At that time, we were ahead of the curve and evolved the goals of engineering education that we are aiming for. Today, as educational system initiatives that go beyond the framework of conventional so-called “schools” such as “integrated junior high and high school” systems are gaining momentum, such as ” elementary and junior high school collaboration” and “high school-university collaboration,” technical colleges, which were originally created by combining high school to the second year of university, are attracting more and more attention. Technical colleges are higher education institutions like universities, and do not have a course of study like ordinary high schools. As an educational institution that teaches specialized arts, it is none other than an educational institution specializing in engineering that incorporates “research,” that is, issues for which answers have not yet been found, into education. In terms of the system, if you add the major course, which is a two-year preparatory course after graduating from the main course established in Heisei 6, it is truly a “high school-university integrated education”. We’ve been doing this for years.
Toyota National College of Technology, which stands on the foundation built over this history, will finally celebrate its 60th anniversary in Reiwa 5 next year. Its characteristic is, in a word, practical education of students with autonomy and internationality. Students at Toyota National College of Technology are given the experience of working with local residents to sincerely listen to their awareness of the issues and develop empathy while practically tackling them so that they can directly confront the issues of the local community and solve them with technology. In addition, Toyota National College of Technology has concluded academic exchange agreements with the AFS Japan Association, the YFU Japan International Exchange Foundation, and several overseas universities, which enable students to study abroad in various countries. Students are given the opportunity to study abroad and interact remotely with international students, and are provided with not only language skills but also various opportunities to accept different cultures and different ideas and share mutual problems and strive to solve them. In the above environment, it is up to each student to work on each community-based issue until they can solve it, and they are naturally required to have a high degree of autonomy. In addition, more than 40 students study abroad every year, and more than 200 out of 1,000 students in five years have studied abroad.
These days, I’m no longer surprised that teens win gold medals at the Olympics. Students who enter technical colleges with the desire to specialize in engineering technology from the age of their first year of high school have the same mindset as these young athletes and have the mentality to aim for a high goal, that is, to become a first-class manufacturing engineer, from an early stage. That is why, even after entering the workforce, you will be able to meet expectations as an immediate force. ROBOCON is a famous event that represents technical colleges, and now a total of 7 contests are held every year, including DCON (Deep Learning Contest) for similar technical college students. Students of Toyota National College of Technology have also boldly taken on these challenges and received many awards. And even these are just part of their output. On campus, you can see and hear students struggling on a daily basis. Especially I like the evening. The passionate joy of celebrating each other’s challenges and celebrating successes, or the energetic cries of laughter and dismissing failures, echoes through the school building. It is not something that is ordered to move the body by someone, but a scene that appears as a result of each student deciding their own path and working on it proactively, and it seems very reliable.
In the future, as a compensation for the rapid development of civilization in recent years, problems such as large-scale disasters, the global spread of infectious diseases, the declining birthrate and aging population of society, and the social isolation of people brought about by the Internet will become increasingly complex and globalized. We, the faculty and staff, strongly believe that the students of Toyota National College of Technology, who have been trained to tackle social issues as part of their practical education and are refining their skills while acquiring an international mindset, will take the initiative in tackling these global environmental and social problems in the future, and we send them out to their respective paths. After graduating from the main course, about 50% of Toyota National College of Technology students (52% of the results in the third year of Reiwa) go on to one of the leading universities in Japan, and the remaining 50% go on to find employment, mainly at large companies. Graduates also have a good reputation in the companies where they work, and there are many seniors who went on to university and went on to become teachers at universities and technical colleges. To elementary and junior high school students who have noble aspirations and are striving every day to be useful to society, please knock on the door of Toyota National College of Technology. I would also like parents and companies to continue to pay attention to their activities.
