A Study on Restructuring of Higher Education in term for Decrease of School Population

18岁的人口从1992年开始迅速减少，最高时为210万，未来至少还会减少120万。在这种形势下，如何设计高等教育结构调整成为高等教育政策的重要目标。本研究的目的是阐明高等教育规模扩张的动态化特征，从规模缩小的角度探寻规模调整的可能性，并为这一目标提供基本资料。第一章分析了1975年高等教育规划后各地州的升学能力和流动能力，明确了以考试为基础的区域结构转变为高等教育的结构调整。第二章，通过对国立、公立、民办高校的问卷调查结果，对课程重组的趋势进行了梳理，并分析了高校期望与学生选择之间的课程设置问题。第三章，分析了二战前关于高等教育机构设置形式的争论和趋势，并提出了今天国立大学改制为机构的趋势。第四章，通过问卷调查，对工科院校角色定位的多样性进行了分析和检验。

The 18-year-old population is rapidly decreasing from 1992, a peak of 2.1 million, and it will be decrease 1.2 million at least in the future. In these situation, it's very important objective of higher education policy that how design restructuring of higher education. The purpose of this research is, to elucidate dynamic specialty of expansion of higher education, and to search approach possibility of scale adjustment in term of reduction, and to offer basic materials of this objective.This report consists of 4 chapters. Chapter 1 analyzes capacity of admission and movement of students that going to higher schools every prefectures, after 1975 planning for higher education, and makes clear that changes of regional structure for the basis of examination into restructuring of higher education. Chapter 2, is arranged tendency of curriculum reorganization by result of questionnaire to, national, public, private university, and analyzes problem about curriculum between expectation of university and choice of students. Chapter 3, analyzes arguments and trend about establishment formation of institutions of higher education in pre-World War II period, and put the trend of adapting national universities for agencies today. Chapter 4, analyzes and examines diverse about the role of colleges of technology by several investigations with questionnaire.