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About The School of Life and Environmental Sciences Akira Tabayashi Provost, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

The School of Life and Environmental Sciences comprises the Colleges of Biological Sciences, Agro-biological Resource Sciences and Geosciences. The School was established in April, 2007 through the restructuring of the Schools and Colleges in the University of Tsukuba. The themes of our school are “life” and “the environment” as these themes are highly valued in modern society. Our goal is to nurture in students well-rounded character and problem finding and solving skills, as well as to cultivate human resources with international perspectives who are able to create a new future. This will come from the comprehensive pursuit of studies of both geoenvironmental and life phenomena of various organisms including humans, and the conservation and continuous operation of biological resources. Each College has created basic policies and challenges for a more sophisticated educational system. Meanwhile the School creates common curricula among the Colleges and moves ahead with internationalization to achieve excellence at all levels of education. In 2010 the Global 30 project began and we have now accepted our second intake of international students. Through the improvement of the English operating educational system, we expect to accelerate the internationalization in the School.