Non-University Higher Education, and Qualification Framework

本研究以专科院校和职业培训院校作为非大学高等教育部门，从“教育控制”、“教育方法论”和“教育目标”三个角度研究其教育项目的特点。本文旨在通过实证研究，对比高校以学术为导向的专业模式，揭示以职业教育为导向的专业。此外，作为政策科学研究，我们探索了国家资格框架的可能性，以提高社会对非大学教育体系的认知和质量保证。此外，我们还对国外非大学高等教育机构进行了实地调研。在研究开始时，我们创建了“国家许可部门”、“工业部门”、“商业和商业部门”和“设计、内容和其他部门”四个分类。我们对国内外进行了更多的实地调查，揭示了它们课程设置的共性和差异化趋势。其次，在此基础上，我们对全国大专院校和职业培训院校的教师和机构进行了调查。通过这次调查，我们明确了职业实践、学术活动、教育资格和管理能力等各种能力的形成。我们发现每种类型的机构都有其独特的运作方式。最后，我们做了毕业生调查，关注他们的职业，评估他们毕业的学校。在研究期间，我们在每个研究阶段都举办了几次国际研讨会，如启动点，中途点和结束点，并有机会通过日本高等教育研究协会的学术会议等展示我们的研究成果。

This research focused on Junior colleges and professional training colleges as non-university higher education sectors and researched the characteristics of their educational programs with three perspectives, namely “control of education”, “methodology of education” and “goals of education”. We aimed to reveal their specialties with vocational education-oriented approach empirically in contrast with academic-oriented one in universities. Moreover, as policy scientific research we searched the possibilities of national qualifications frameworks in order to improvesocial cognition for non-university education system and their quality assurance. Further, we conducted field studies of non-university higher education institutions abroad. On commencement of this research, we have created four classifications including the “national license sector”, the “industrial sector”, the “commerce and business sector” and the “design, contents and others sector”. We did more field surveys domestic and abroad and revealed their mutual aspects and differentiated trends of their curriculum. Secondly, based on these results we surveyed teaching staff and institutions of junior colleges and professional training colleges nationwide. Through this survey, we clarified the formation of various competencies such as excellence in vocational practice, academic activities, educational qualification and management ability. We found unique operational style of each type of institution. Finally, we did graduate survey focusing their careers and evaluating their graduating colleges.During this research period we held several international seminars at each research stage such as kickoff point, a halfway point and closing points and also had opportunities to present our research results through academic meetings of Japan Association of Higher Education Research and so on.