Research on the development of adult higher education in China based on grey system theory

Author

Si, Cheng

Author_Institution

Coll. of Educ., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

638

Lastpage

643

Abstract

According to the related data from 1999 to 2007, this paper applies gray prediction model to forecast the total enrollment of students of adult higher education in China from 2008 to 2012 in order to predict the development trend of Chinese adult higher education; then, it chose some indexes such as total enrollment of students of adult higher education, GDP per capita, all households consumption expenditure, the proportion of the employees whose educational level is above college education to the total employed people and so forth to analyze the relevant factors influencing the development of Chinese adult higher education based on grey correlation analysis.

Keywords

education; grey systems; China; Gross Domestic Product index; adult higher education; employee proportion index; grey correlation analysis; grey system theory; household consumption expenditure index; student enrollment index; Differential equations; Economic indicators; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Intelligent systems; Predictive models; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2009. GSIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4914-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4916-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408234

Filename

5408234