Foreign Credential Evaluation (FCE) at Kyushu University: Practices and Challenges with Special Reference to the Realization of the Tokyo Convention Objectives

HIROSE TAKESHI, HANAI WATARU, KIMURA TAKUYA

doi:10.15017/7339183

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九州大学における外国学歴・資格評定（FCE）の実践と課題：「東京規約」の基本理念の実現に向けて
キュウシュウダイガクニオケルガイコクガクレキ・シカクヒョウテイ(FCE)ノジッセントカダイ : 「トウキョウキヤク」ノキホンリネンノジツゲンニムケテ

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The so-called Tokyo Convention, which entered into force in February 2018, requires that the procedures and criteria for foreign credential evaluation (FCE) used by “competent recognition authorities” be “transparent, coherent, reliable and fair, and non-discriminatory.” Given that the Japanese Government takes each higher education institution to act as such an entity, the responsibility for FCE falls primarily upon universities themselves. As things stand now, however, there exists a significant gap between the Convention’s ideals and the universities’ day-to-day operations. What, then, should Japanese higher education institutions do to convert the aspirations of the Tokyo Convention into reality? In considering this question, the “pre-admission support” program which some national universities have recently adopted would be of great help. By taking Kyushu U’s practices as an example, this paper seeks first to bring to light how FCE is being carried out as part of the pre-admission support program at some national universities in Japan and identify what its advantages and challenges are. It then seeks to indicate what the pre-admission support program can do to promote FCE nation-wide and to provide a viable solution to one of the major problems that Japan’s national universities are faced with in terms of international admissions.

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基幹教育紀要

基幹教育紀要 11 1-20, 2025-02-21

Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu Unieversity