Historical Sketch
1986 | April | In its report “The Second Report on Educational Reform”, the National Council for Educational Reform proposes to examine the possibility of establishing an organization which grants academic degrees through assessment of academic achievement for the promotion of lifelong learning. |
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1989 | July | The Committees for Graduate Education and University Education of the Council for Higher Education report the necessity to establish such an organization. |
1990 | June | The preparation committee for the organization is formed and its office is located at Graduate University for Advanced Studies. |
1991 | February | The Council for Higher Education publishes “A Report for Founding of the Organization which Grants Academic Degrees through Assessment”. The preparation committee publishes “A Report on Agenda of the National Institution for Academic Degrees”. |
July | The National Institution for Academic Degrees is founded. | |
1992 | March | The first NIAD degrees are awarded. |
1998 | March | The number of people granted NIAD degrees exceeds 10,000. |
October | In its report “A Vision of Universities in the 21st Century”, the Council for Higher Education proposes to establish a third-party organization for university evaluation. |
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April | 1999 | The preparatory office and the preparatory committee for founding a national organization for university evaluation are established in NIAD. |
2000 | February | The preparatory committee publishes “A Report on Founding a National Organization for University Evaluation”. |
April | NIAD is reorganized as a new entity charged with carrying out the evaluation of universities in addition to its degree-awarding functions. |
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2001 | September | NIAD celebrates the 10th anniversary of its degree-awarding activities. |
2002 | March | NIAD publishes the first university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period. The number of people granted NIAD degrees exceeds 20,000. |
2003 | March | NIAD publishes the second university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period. |
April | NIAD moves to its new offices in Kodaira City, Tokyo. | |
May | The English name is changed from National Institution for Academic Degrees (NIAD) to National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE). |
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2004 | March | NIAD-UE publishes the third university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period, completing the trial evaluations. |
April | NIAD-UE is newly established as an Incorporated Administrative Agency. | |
November | NIAD-UE pubulishes the meta-evaluation reports of the university evaluations conducted during the trial period. |
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2005 | January | NIAD-UE is certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as an evaluation and accreditation organization for universities, junior colleges, and law schools among professional graduate schools. |
February | NIAD-UE pubulicly announces evaluation results for college of technology evaluation (trial evaluations). |
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March | The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 30,000. | |
July | NIAD-UE is certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as an evaluation and accreditation organization for colleges of technology. |
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Octorber | NIAD-UE establishes a Center for International Relations. | |
2006 | March | NIAD-UE publicly announces results of Institutional certified evaluation and accreditation (universities, junior colleges, colleges of technology) for the first time. |
2008 | March | NIAD-UE publicly announces the results of certified evaluation and accreditation of law schools for the first time. The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 40,000. |
2009 | March | NIAD-UE publicly announces the results of evaluation of education and research activities at national university corporations and inter-university research institute corporations for the first time. |
2010 | March | The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 50,000. |
2011 | April | NIAD-UE integrates its Department of Research for University Evaluation and Department of Assessment and Research for Degree Awarding to form a new Research Department. |
May | NIAD-UE integrates its Department of Research for University Evaluation and Department of Assessment and Research for Degree Awarding to form a new Research Department. | |
2013 | May | The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 60,000. |
2014 | July | NIAD-UE establishes the Center for Japanese College and University Portraits. |
2015 | March | Publication of the information by the Japanese College and University Portraits providing information about education at universities begins. |
2016 | April | A new institution, National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE), is established by merger of National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation(NIAD-UE) and the Center for National University Finance and Management (CUFM). ・National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education ・Center for National University Finance and Management |