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Sustainable development and health assessment model of higher education in India: A mathematical modeling approach.
Deng, Chenchen; Yang, Song; Liu, Qingyang; Feng, Songjie; Chen, Chuangbin.
  • Deng C; Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi, China.
  • Yang S; School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi, China.
  • Liu Q; Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi, China.
  • Feng S; School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi, China.
  • Chen C; Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei City, Tokyo, Japan.
PLoS One ; 16(12): e0261776, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1631646
ABSTRACT
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 has resulted in a transition from physical education to online learning, leading to a collapse of the established educational order and a wisdom test for the education governance system. As a country seriously affected by the pandemic, the health of the Indian higher education system urgently requires assessment to achieve sustainable development and maximize educational externalities. This research systematically proposes a health assessment model from four perspectives, including educational volume, efficiency, equality, and sustainability, by employing the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution Model, Principal Component Analysis, DEA-Tobit Model, and Augmented Solow Model. Empirical results demonstrate that India has high efficiency and an absolute health score in the higher education system through multiple comparisons between India and the other selected countries while having certain deficiencies in equality and sustainability. Additionally, single-target and multiple-target path are simultaneously proposed to enhance the Indian current education system. The multiple-target approach of the India-China-Japan-Europe-USA process is more feasible to achieve sustainable development, which would improve the overall health score from .351 to .716. This finding also reveals that the changes are relatively complex and would take 91.5 years considering the relationship between economic growth rates and crucial indicators. Four targeted policies are suggested for each catching-up period, including expanding and increasing the social funding sources, striving for government expenditure support to improve infrastructures, imposing gender equality in education, and accelerating the construction of high-quality teachers.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Education, Distance / Educational Status / Pandemics / Sustainable Development / SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 / Models, Theoretical Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America / Asia / Europa Language: English Journal: PLoS One Journal subject: Science / Medicine Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Journal.pone.0261776

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Education, Distance / Educational Status / Pandemics / Sustainable Development / SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 / Models, Theoretical Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America / Asia / Europa Language: English Journal: PLoS One Journal subject: Science / Medicine Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Journal.pone.0261776