日本生育率下降对高等教育的影响

"少子化"是当今影响日本社会的主要人口问题之一.就高等教育而言,"少子化"造成学校入学人数减少,一些高等学校生源不足被迫关闭,学校为招揽学生降低入学要求,使得大学生整体素质下降,少子化对高等教育结构和师资也产生了影响.为此,日本政府和高校采取了一些应对措施,如开展高等学校的合并重组,推进高等教育的"高度化",加强学校个性化发展,尝试"高大合作"、扩大留学生招生,推动大学评价机制的形成等.

The Impacts of Few-children in Families on Higher Education in Japan

Currently,the Japanese are experiencing an age of having few children in families,which influences the development of higher education greatly.With the declining of enrollment,some universities and colleges have to close down,the quality of the tertiary education has deteriorated,and the structure of higher education and the teachers are also affected.Japanese government and universities(colleges) have taken some counter measures to reduce the disadvantages brought by few-children in families,which include the amalgamation and recombination of universities,development of graduate education,increasing the number of foreign students,and the introduction of an external evaluation for each institution.