Students | Academic Year 2009-2010 Iwate Prefectural University Annual Report

Based on our midterm goals, we have made efforts to build awareness of career development, provide an efficient and effective job-search environment, develop leads for employment and promote the idea of settling in the prefecture. As part of the efforts since the 2009 academic year, we have newly appointed a special section chief in charge of employment support in order to cultivate employment opportunities and promote mutual interests between the corporate sector and the university, and this has strengthened our relationship with the corporate sector.
We are continuing to take initiatives to maintain a high level of job placement even in difficult economic times, and promote the idea of students settling in the prefecture.

Figures for March 2010 graduates (unit: people)

Undergraduate		Faculty of Nursing	Faculty of Social Welfare	Faculty of Software and Information Science	Faculty of Policy Studies	Total
	Graduates	92	110	127	111	440
	Those seeking employment	89	100	91	98	378
	Those who found employment (in Iwate)	87(28)	98(58)	82(13)	89(46)	356(145)
	Those seeking further education	3	8	35	10	56
	Other	0	2	1	3	6

Graduate school	Graduate School of Nursing		Graduate School of Social Welfare		Graduate School of Software and Information Science		Graduate School of Policy Studies		Total
	Mas- ter’s pro- gram	Doc- toral pro- gram	Mas- ter’s pro- gram	Doc- toral pro- gram	Mas- ter’s pro- gram	Doc- toral pro- gram	Mas- ter’s pro- gram	Doc- toral pro- gram	Total
	5	1	9	0	28	3	3	0	49

Junior College		Morioka Junior College	Miyako College
	Graduates	106	106
	Those seeking employment	69	79
	Those who found employment (in Iwate)	59（42）	65（44）
	Those seeking further education	27	14
	Other	10	13

As of March 31, 2010

(Note) “other” includes independents, entrepreneurs, domestic helpers, those who do not wish employment or further study, those who have not decided on a career path and those who have not yet received job offers

Featured Topic

Known as “IPU-E”, students are strengthening their employability.
The University’s “Developing student-oriented reliable employability in Iwate” has been adopted
as a GP* program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

The University applied for the Ministry’s 2010 “University Student Employability Development Assistance Program” and the University’s “Developing student-oriented reliable employability in Iwate” was adopted. This project is a new Ministry-supported effort that has been implemented on a national scale to realize the social and professional independence of the students after graduation. This program includes specialized education in practical sciences by having each university and junior college collaborate with industry.
The program that the university submitted and was subsequently adopted has produced numerous forerunners. It is an initiative to improve the students’ employability in Iwate, which is the largest prefecture on Honshu and has a wide industrial base ranging from natural resources to automotive, and semi-conductors.
The initiative improves the students’ employability by using a concept called “IPU-E (Iwate Prefectural University – Employability)” in which the University assists students to recognize their own strengths and weaknesses and to carry out various activities, including mandatory courses, in order to build a foundation for visualizing improvements in their human skills and abilities to the best degree possible.

* GP: Good Practice

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