For Activation Reform (1) to create the Promotive Center for International Education and Research of Agriculture, the five units' leaders have worked out their respective organizations and operations for the next five years.
Activation Reform (2) to reorganize the Institute of Tropical Agriculture has been approved by two relevant organizations -- the Faculty of Agriculture and the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies.
On Activation Reform (3) to open the Vietnam satellite campus of Kyushu University's Faculty of Agriculture, the Hanoi University of Agriculture rector and the Faculty of Agriculture dean have held several meetings for preliminary negotiations and signed an agreement to have intensive negotiations on details by May 2013.
As the FY2012 global human resources development promotion project (Special Type B) has been adopted as requested by Kyushu University, the Vietnam satellite campus will be used as one of lecture sites for an international teacher team's science program to solve the most important unsolved problems involving Japanese and ASEAN agriculture under the project (as outlined by Figure 4). At present, preparations are underway for opening the program in the summer of 2013.

Increasing international education units

Objectives and expected effects
Kyushu University's proposal for "building a basic education faculty to explore a new bachelor program education model" was adopted in FY2012 as one of the MEXT national university reform enhancement promotion subsidy projects to contribute to nurturing future-supporting human resources, advancing university management and enhancing international competitiveness through the promotion of unprecedentedly deep and fast national university reforms including the reorganization of education and research organizations, the expanded recruitment of foreigners and experts as teachers and university managers, the creation of region-by-region or function-by-function university associations and the standardization of operational procedures for efficient university management to revitalize Japan.
The adopted proposal for "building a basic education faculty to explore new bachelor program education models" envisages that we will develop curricula going beyond the traditional liberal arts education framework and an organization (faculty of arts and science) for the curricula to provide a system for nurturing lifetime active learners and propose a forerunning bachelor education program reform model.
Arts and science education proposed as a bachelor education program reform model aims to achieve a full paradigm shift "from a passive learning style to an active learning style" or "from knowledge-oriented education to thinking power development" to reform curricula and teaching styles and switch from "learning challenges" to "learning through challenges," leading students to prepare to remain active learners over their lifetimes and become forerunners who create and rebuild new wisdom.
In order to nurture human resources who can well perform in a globalizing society, the proposal also aims to shift from "learning English" to "learning through English" and expand English education from a foreign language course into courses using English to improve foreign language literacy (reading, speaking, writing and presentation). At the same time, the proposal calls for developing new English education materials and for formulating and implementing curricula for improving overall English skills through the creation and provision of English preparation and learning materials to further promote the globalization of education. Finally, it seeks to create a school of international liberal studies (as named tentatively).
Meanwhile, we plan to take advantage of the FY2009-2013 Global 30 project adopted in FY2009 for promoting the development of networks for internationalizing the university (to launch relevant university-wide education and international bachelor courses for each major at the Engineering and Agriculture Faculties in October 2010. The first students for the international courses will be accepted in October 2010 and will graduate in September 2014.