The forecast and planning of manpower with implications to higher educational institutions-mathematical models

Abstract

The article investigates the possibilities of planning a national higher educational system, namely the ways and the means wherein a desired output of the system is to be obtained from a given input. This examination generates guidelines whereupon a detailed mathematical model can be erected to effectuate the planning objectives. However, since the actual construction of the model involves a bulk of mathematical machinery and notations too burdensome to be comprised in the manuscript, the model itself is not developed here. Rather, a detailed exemplification of the planning operations is illustrated on a lilliputian system which serves as a demonstrative vehicle.