On the occasion of the adoption of
gInitiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schoolsh in 2005
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GO, Mitiko
President, Ochanomizu University
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We are happy
to announce that both of the two graduate school programs that
Ochanomizu University applied for in 2005 have been approved by the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
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These are a
humanities and social science program, gExploration Dialogue:
Education for Women as Leaders,h and a science program, gThe Training
Program in Bioinformatics for Women Graduate Students.h
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The basic
principles of the humanities and social science program are
gexplorationh in the sense that we explore our expertise and deepen our
understanding of human beings, and gdialogueh in the sense that we seek
dialogues between different academic fields, between nations and
between cultures. To that end, we have designed this program
essentially in the way in which we have expanded Japanese Studies from
the
traditional framework to an interdisciplinary study. Thus
expanded, the main characteristics of the program are gOverseas Joint
Educational Program,h enhancement of the Multisupervisor System
and
practical guidance for studentsf doctoral dissertation writing
process. The science program is aimed at fostering capable women
resources in such leading-edge research areas as bioinformatics.
The foremost characteristic of this program is that it is so designed
that graduate students not only from conventional life sciences or
biosciences but also from any other science field can master the
methodology of bioinformatics, deepening the understanding of their own
expertise. To accommodate the program, we plan to develop our
existing lectures, seminars and supervisor system so that we can offer
courses in cutting-edge life science areas and implement an
internship program in cooperating institutions.
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This
academic institution has produced many outstanding women researchers
and scholars during this time period. The most notable feature of
our graduate school is that the humanities and social science fields
and the science fields constitute one single graduate school. The
two programs that are applied for from each of these different fields
of study have both been adopted; we take pride in the fact that we have
received a validation for our teaching philosophy, which aims at
deepening studentsf expertise and at the same time pursuing academic
development as well as social contribution with a new perspective for
the coming generations.
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Our programs
were among 35 cases in the humanities and social science fields
and 43 MEXT-approved programs cases in the science fields,
respectively. We feel
particularly honored that two out of 97 adopted cases, including ones
in the field of health care, were applied for by our graduate
school. We have also been told that only Ochanomizu University
applied for more than one program, all of which have been
adopted.
We understand that our graduate school is expected to undertake the
social
responsibility to educate our students from both fields to be future
female leaders; we certainly realize the gravity of our mission.
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During my
administration our
institution has also won approval for well coordinating, our academic
support systems for female
researchers and scholars. By means of the two graduate teaching
programs that have been adopted this time, we intend, with a view to
the changing social situation, to promote further our project to
foster female leaders with an interdisciplinary and international
perspective as well as with sophisticated expertise.
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We wish you will
continue to keep an eye, in a critical but supportive manner, on
Ochanomizu Universityfs enthusiasm for graduate school education and
our future achievements.
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