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第８７回　WORKSHOP報告（８月２日） / 参加者８５名

 

（１：前半のマテリアルを紹介中です）

 

（２：様々なバックグラウンドの方々が参加されています）

 

（３：後半のマテリアル作成者　Iさんから説明がありました）

 

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《　今回のworkshop　》

 

○workshop参加人数：８５名（うち新人の方：８名）

 

○【前半】：”Let’s share what we think of as “fashion”.”というテーマでディスカッション

 

○【後半】：”Which do you prefer to go, Harvard or Todai?”というテーマでディスカッション

 

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＜英語サークル　E’s club　第８７回workshopのご案内＞

 

みなさまこんにちは、E’s club幹事のKです。

８月２日（土）開催の第８７回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

 

今回は前半のマテリアルをMさん、後半のマテリアルをIさんにご作成いただきました。

前半は”Let’s share what we think of as “fashion”.”

後半は”Which do you prefer to go, Harvard or Todai?”というテーマでディスカッションを行います。

 

[今週のマテリアル]

＜FIRST HALF＞

こんにちは、Mと申します。

これまでworkshopに参加してきて、今まで当たったことのない

身近なトピック　ファッションについてディスカッションしたいと思いマテリアルを作成しました。

 

[Agenda]

Let’s share what we think of as “fashion”.

 

[Questions]

Q1.

Where do you usually shop?

If you have recommended area/shop, please introduce that.

 

Q2.

In getting fashionable items, which feature do you put your 1st priority on ? And why?

(e.g. appearance(design, color, size …), price, quality(endurance, comfort …), etc.)

 

Q3.

Have you ever been embarrassed about your fashion?

If not, have you ever seen others been like that?

 

Q4

Do you want/like to put on your clothes like in media(magazine, TV shows and movies etc.)?

For example, do you want/like to wear leather shoes on bare feet -like Junichi Ishida- ?

 

Q5.

What’s your favorite men’s(for women) and women’s(for men) style?

Please share your favorite one.

 

Extra

Do you like to take advice from sales associate in a shop?

If so – how do you utilize that?

If not – what do you want them to do?

 

 

＜LATTER HALF＞

Agenda: Which do you prefer to go, Harvard or Todai?

 

If you are asked “which university is the best in Japan”, probably all of you will choose UT (The University of Tokyo).

However, the relative position of UT is going into a decline in the global market.

 

As for the strategy Prime Minister Abe has claimed so far, they are so worried about the status quo and they aim to make 10 Japanese universities in the global top 100.

※In the recent ranking, only two Japanese universities, Tokyo and Kyoto make the top 100

 

On the other hand, if you are asked “which university is the best in America”, you may have some answers in your mind.

I am very confident that I would get a variety of names, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, or Caltech, if I ask the same question to the people there.

 

Today, I would like you to think about universities, especially some advantages and disadvantages to enter a foreign top university.

 

1. Which do you think is the best university in US?

Choose one university in a group (may be Harvard or another) .

 

2. What kind of advantages [conveniences] will you get, if you enter Harvard (or an American university chosen at Part 1) rather than The University of Tokyo?

 

3. What kind of disadvantages [inconveniences] will you suffer, if you enter Harvard (or an American university chosen at Part 1) rather than The University of Tokyo?

 

4. Imagine you were a high school student. You were a student of excellence envied by your classmates, and got qualified to enter University of Tokyo and Harvard (or an American university chosen at Part 1).

Then, which university would you choose?

 

5. Imagine your lovely son is a high school student. He is a student of excellence envied by your classmates, and got qualified to enter University of Tokyo and Harvard (or an  American university chosen at Part 1).

Then, which university would you recommend?

 

6.  What do you think is needed for University of Tokyo to be enough competitive with Harvard (or an American university chosen at Part 1)?

 

【References】

●Fact & Figures

The University of Tokyo

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/data/academic-staff.html

 

Harvard University

http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-glance

 

●World University Ranking (Times Higher Education)

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking

Top 100 Japanese universities : The University of Tokyo (23rd) / Kyoto University (52nd)

 

●Excerpt from speech by President Abe

【Reforms to make Japanese universities winners in global competition】

Unless we create a Japan in which human resources, capital, and all other elements come together, we will fail to be winners in global competition.

 

At present, how many young people in the world choose Japanese universities in the hopes of being active internationally?

 

There is a list known as the “World University Rankings 100.” Regrettably, only two Japanese universities made it into that list.

 

We need to become “global universities,” not “Japanese universities.”

 

Japan’s universities should aim much more at being global in nature. Under the university reforms that I envision, we will shed such narrow-minded thinking as, “the purpose of Japan’s universities is to bring up Japanese.”

 

(Collaboration between industry and academia in the truest sense)

 

The universities ranked first and second are the California Institute of Technology, or “Caltech,” and Stanford University. I am sure that for some of you, something clicked in your mind when you heard that. That’s right, they are both near Silicon Valley.

 

The universities themselves are deeply committed to business. When their graduates launch a venture, there are even mechanisms for investing in them with the schools’ own funds.

 

People all around the world highly regard not only their graduates’ research capabilities but also their high level of entrepreneurial spirit that makes them unafraid of risk.

 

The expression “the ivory tower” is no longer applicable. Japanese universities also need to start first of all from a point where individuals start their own businesses. I am confident that from there, collaboration between industry and academia in the truest sense will emerge.

 

We will move forward with regulatory reform to enable reforms to university governance and the investment of the school’s own funds into businesses.

 

(Towards “global universities”)

 

Tomorrow I will pay a visit to Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Oita Prefecture. Here, roughly half of both the faculty and the students are foreign nationals. They are not only from Southeast Asian nations. Some come from countries in the Middle East while others are from Botswana, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere. They have come together from all around the world.

 

They are able to come into contact with other cultures around the world through their college life. What’s more, after they graduate, their network of personal contacts will extend throughout the globe.

 

As the saying goes, “whoever suggests it should start.” At eight national universities, we will replace approximately 1,500 people with researchers of excellence from around the world within the next three years. By doing so, we will double the number of non-Japanese faculty.

 

The state of university administration must be brought in line with global standards. We will also work to advance administrative reforms, including through the introduction of an annual salary system and preparing an environment in which the families of faculty are able to go about their daily lives using English.

 

We will also conduct a review of the distribution of the management expenses grants allocated from the national government to make it more “global” in nature and provide backing for universities’ reform efforts.

 

We will enhance in both qualitative and quantitative terms universities that are making efforts to carry out globalization measures such as the assertive hiring of non-Japanese faculty, the acquisition of outstanding foreign exchange students, tie-ups with overseas universities, enhancing the degree programs through which students are able to graduate by taking only classes conducted in English, setting [minimum] TOEFL [scores] as graduation requirements, and so on. We will provide assistance that focuses on the institutional aspects as well as the budgetary aspects.

 

Over the next ten years, we will aim to have ten of our universities ranked within the World University Ranking top 100 schools. At the same times, we will create senior high schools capable of fostering global leaders.

 

(source)

http://japan.kantei.go.jp/96_abe/statement/201305/17speech_e.html

 

 

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