●文科省、大学院生の就職難が問題となっていることを受けて、 「博士課程の定員削減」を国立大学法人に通知。 Japanese MEXT notified to National University Corporations to cut down the fixed number of doctor's course in graduate school. This instruction is in response to the job shortage of grad students.
●小渕優子少子化担当相の私的懇談会 「ゼロから考える少子化対策プロジェクトチーム」、婚活支援へ。 23日に「少子化の背景にある恋愛・結婚にまで視野を広げて政策的対応を」とする報告書を提出。 婚活支援策の内容は以下のようなものになる見通し。 「出会いの場の提供」「異性とのコミュニケーション能力向上策」等。 "Project Team for sweeping review of birth dearth countermeasures" (The private consulting group of Yuko Obuchi, Minister for the birth dearth) embarks upon the support measures for marriage-hunting. And PT offers a paper about the political response for birth dearth, says that LOVE AND MARRIAGE HAVE TO BE HANDLED for drastic improvement of birth. Specifically, the support measures will be providing meeting places, improving communication ability with the opposite sex, etc.