An Analysis On Ecology Of Higher Education System In China

The essay demonstrates an ecological analysis on higher education system in China,taking the value of ecology and the ecological principles and methods into account. Theresearch is based on the construction of an ecological view on analyzing higher educationsystem and more discussion is focused on the current ecological situation of highereducation system in China, finally taking the continuance of ecology as the potential wayto develop higher education. Firstly constructing an ecological view on analyzing higher education system. Highereducation system is composed of kinds of essential elements, which has its ownspecificities and functions. Despite the common points shared with other systems, likemacrocosm, hierarchy, structuralism, functionality and relatively stability, it showscharacteristics of the ecosystem development and ecology region thanks to exchanging ofmaterials, energies and information within its environment. Therefore the highereducation system and its ecological environment constitute the ecology of highereducation system. This is a man-made ecosystem that not only indicates the characteristicsof natural ecosystem but also is controllable. The research points out that integratedecological views should be constructed when analyzing higher education system, andstudies could be conducted from the perspectives of the ecological connection, adoption,intergrowth, equilibrium, heredity, variability and controllable. Secondly, an ecology analysis on the current ecological situation of higher educationsystem in China is presented. The first thing to be discussed is the analysis on ecologicalcapacity of higher education system. It is the first time to relate the ecological capacityto higher education system. The ecological capacity of higher education system has theobjective, variable and multi-leveled characteristics and it shows the self-maintained,self-adjusted functions of ecology of higher education system and the capacity ofeducation resources and the environment subsystem as well. The development of highereducation must coordinate the ecological capacity. The rapid development of highereducation might be beyond the ecological capacity of higher education system and thusdestroy the balance of ecosystem. And this will lead to a risk of higher educationecological crisis. The analysis is based on the potential dimensions of higher education,looking into the ecological capacity of scale-up recruit students in 1999, which indicates IIIthat the ecological capacity in the process is nearly beyond its maximum. Considering theappropriate ecological capacity in the process of higher education popularization, thefollowing issues should be taken into account: On one hand, increasing the resourcecapacity of running a school and the environment capacity hoping to increase theecological capacity of higher education system. On the other hand, considering controllingthe over-expanded scale of higher education and the over-developed speed, the maxbalance between the resource utilizing and the ecosystem is searched for. That wouldincrease the ecological capacity of higher education and meanwhile would not destroy thehigher education ecosystem. The second thing to be discussed is the analysis on the ecological regiondevelopment of higher education system. The ecological region development displays thedistribution of higher education's scope, level, type, major and subject in differentecological region. The ecological region developing of higher education system isinfluenced by the environment, reforms in higher education, regional economy, historyand culture. The balance of its development is relevant and active, whereas the unbalanceis unconditional and invariable which shows the differentia in quality and quantity. Theunbalanced development of higher education in the eastern, the middle and the westernpart of China mainly presents the following aspects: r...