高等教育に対する公的支援 ― 就業支援の観点から―

Abstract

Since the 1990’s , enterprises and industries seem to make more demands on university graduates entering the labor market in Japan than in the past, by the deterioration of the employment situation, the progress of globalization, the informationalization and so on. On the other hand, from the international point of view, the level of public expenditure on higher education is so low in Japan, that students and their families are forced to take a lot of individual expenditure in order to achieve the level of human capacities required by the demand side. If requests of the demand side will be further enhanced, without drastic corrective measures against economic burden of students and parents, such as reduction or exemption of tuition, scholarship, youths and their families who can not tolerate the educational burden could be subject to the social exclusion. In this report, we view the current status of educational expenditure until graduates manage to get employment, examine the measures taken by the government and educational institutions and consider challenges for the future.