An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the productivity scores for universities of Belarus. This assessment will … determines the difference in productivity between public and private universities; (c) what policy should be undertaken in order … to improve the performance of universities. …

Measuring relative efficiency of academic units which have similar area of research, methodology and resource profiles … using on our test case. Then we present our own case, based on 2007 statistics of Turkish universities and some preliminary …

several other countries, accountability and efficiency questions gain an additional relevance in the higher education sector …. In this paper we apply DEA techniques to evaluate the comparative efficiency of public higher education institutions in … Portugal. The analysis is performed for three separate groups: public universities, public polytechnics and the several …

The efficiency of universities is attracting increased interest, with most studies comparing the performance between … different universities. However, the within-university variation is largely overlooked in the literature. Using data envelopment … teaching. Third, efficiency in research is highly correlated with efficiency in teaching, implying a complementary relationship. …

Efficiency scores are determined for Canadian universities using both data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier … individual universities across sets of several efficiency rankings (e.g., all the data envelopment analysis and stochastic … methods for selected specifications. The outcomes are compared. There is considerable divergence in the efficiency scores and …

interesting strategic initiative in the attempt to achieve enhanced efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. Privatisation is …, universities can achieve improved levels of service and cost savings from outsourcing. …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor … German universities still appear at the top end of relative efficiency outcomes. …

.<br> The need to know the quality and efficiency of universities is a matter of increasing concern to society more, since they … levels previously calculated efficiency. This will determine whether the efficient universities are best valued by the market … staff. All this is reflected in the different results in quality between some universities and others.<br> The efficiency …