"Physical Examination" for Higher Education in 2021 Meisai F Question
What does it mean for a country to have a healthy and sustainable higher education system? What question is important?
Is it cost, opportunity, fairness, funding, the value of a degree, the quality of education, the level of research, and the exchange of ideas among the brightest people in the world, part or all of these factors? Or some other factors?
The higher education system is an important part of a country’s efforts to further educate its citizens beyond elementary and secondary education. Therefore, as an industry itself and as a source of citizens trained and educated for the country’s economic development, the higher education system has value . Looking around the world, from Germany to the United States, from Japan to Australia, we see that there are many ways of higher education in various countries. Each country not only trains its own students, but also attracts a large number of international students every year. Each country's higher education system has its strengths and weaknesses. After making necessary adjustments to the current pandemic situation, countries need to reflect on which of their higher education systems are effective and which can be better. However, change is often difficult. The institutional changes required to advance any system require policies to be implemented over a longer period of time to achieve a healthier and sustainable system.
In this question, you need to develop a model to measure and evaluate the health of the higher education system at the national level, determine a healthy and sustainable state of the higher education system in a given country, and propose and analyze a set of policies , Move a country from its current state to the healthy and sustainable state you proposed.
Specifically, you are required to:
Develop and verify a model or set of models that enable you to evaluate the health of the higher education system in any country;
Apply your model to several countries, and then choose a higher education based on your analysis Countries with room for improvement in the education system
;
Propose an achievable and reasonable blueprint for the system of the country you choose to support a healthy and sustainable higher
education system;
Use your model to measure your choice The current system of the country and the health of the healthy and sustainable system you propose
;
Put forward a policy and implementation timetable with clear goals to support the migration from the current state to the state you recommend;
Use your model to determine and / Or evaluate the effectiveness of your policy; and
Considering that changing reality is very difficult, discuss
the practical impact of implementing your plan during the transition and final stages on students, teachers, schools, communities, and the country.
The ICM-F Committee is an interdisciplinary and diverse
group involved in self-policy, higher education, social and political science, and mathematics . We look forward to your final report.
Your PDF solution with a total page count of no more than 25 pages should include:
A one-page summary table.
Directory.
Your complete solution.
Reference list.
New note for this tournament: The ICM competition now has a 25-page limit. Everything you submit counts towards the 25-page
limit: summary sheet, table of contents, solution text, images and tables, one-page document, reference list, and any appendices.
Explanation of terms
Higher Education (post-secondary education, third-level, or tertiary education): The last optional stage of formal learning, after completing the required (many intermediate) education level.
Sustainable System: A system that can maintain its effectiveness over time.
System Health: It measures the ability of an organization or system to revolve around a common blueprint, effectively implement the blueprint, and renew itself through innovation and creative thinking.
System of Higher Education: An organizational structure composed of higher education institutions (colleges, universities, etc.).
And the personnel and infrastructure needed to educate students beyond the middle school level.