Healthy and Sustainable Higher Education System Assessment Model

Abstract

A healthy and sustainable higher education system not only helps a person to develop rapidly, but also promotes a country to flourish. The purpose of this paper is to develop an evaluation model of a healthy and sustainable higher education system and apply it to countries such as China to evaluate the health of the higher education systems in these countries. In addition, this paper proposes policies for countries with room for improvement in their higher education systems, as represented by China, and discusses the impact of policy implementation on universities, students, and society. In this paper, eight indicators are identified to measure the health of higher education systems, and a weighted arithmetic averaging algorithm is used to develop a healthy and sustainable higher education system evaluation model in combination with the indicator weights determined using AHP. Then, by applying the established higher education system evaluation model to several countries, Japan, China and the United States, this paper identifies the country, China, where the higher education system needs to be improved. Using a single-variable control approach, a weighted arithmetic averaging algorithm, and a gray prediction model, this paper establishes the policies and implementation timeline that China should implement to improve its higher education system, as well as the impact of policy implementation on universities, students, and society.