Abstract
With the aid of grey correlation theory and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), this paper sets up a multi-dimensional evaluation index system (EIS) for the comprehensive development level (CDL) of China’s higher education, and quantifies the state of collaborative development in 2005-2017 with an improved distance collaboration model. The results show that: Being the premises and bases of higher education, the supply subsystem develops much slower than the other subsystems (i.e. participation, output, and environment), and clearly pulls the development of the other subsystems. From 2012 onwards, the subsystems conformed to basically the same trend for the degree of collaboration: the degree of collaboration tended to be stable. There was even a slight dent in overall degree of collaboration between 2012 and 2016. Hence, the overall degree of collaborative development was far slower than the overall degree of development. After more than a decade of development, the degree of development, degree of collaboration, and degree of collaborative development reached basically the same level in 2017. The empirical results shed new lights on the focal points of higher education development in China.
Highlights
Higher education is an important propeller of social progress and economic growth
Taking the comprehensive development level (CDL) of China’s higher education as a whole, this paper quantitatively measures the collaborative development levels of the higher education system in China and its subsystems, with improved distance collaboration model based on TOPSIS and grey correlation theory [17,18,19,20,21]
The improved distance collaboration model is coupled with TOPSIS and grey correlation theory to evaluate the collaborative development of China’s higher education
Summary
Higher education is an important propeller of social progress and economic growth. Higher education helps to reform the social structure and optimize the cultural environment. It is impossible for a country to modernize science and technology, not to mention realizing social progress or economic growth. Since reform and opening-up, China has made remarkable achievements in higher education. China is working hard to enrich the connotations of higher education, while maintaining the sustained growth of its scale. To coordinate the development and enhance the quality of higher education, all IHLs in China are obliged to optimize its structure, efficiency, and benefits, and adapt to the development of society, economy, and environment [1,2,3,4,5]
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