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The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis
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In this article, non-parametric techniques are used to estimate technical and scale efficiency of individual Australian universities and the results show that regardless of the output-input mix, Australian universities as a whole recorded high levels of efficiency relative to each other.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2003-02-01. It has received 703 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data envelopment analysis.read more
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Social innovation: buzz word or enduring term?
Eduardo Pol,Simon Ville +1 more
TL;DR: The authors distinguish social innovation from business innovation, and identify a subset of social innovations that require government support, and suggest one possible definition of social innovation and show that when its empirical meaning is distilled, the term is of great importance.
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Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Application to the Measurement of Efficiency in Higher Education.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the possibility of measuring efficiency in the context of higher education and explore the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for measuring the efficiency in higher education context.
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Tertiary education for the knowledge society
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made high-quality tertiary learning more important than ever, and the imperative for countries is to raise higher-level employment skills, to sustain a globally competitive research base and to improve knowledge dissemination to the benefit of society.
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Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward
TL;DR: The authors provide an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education, summarizing the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used data sources of papers in the field of education.
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An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
TL;DR: This book is the first systematic survey of performance measurement with the express purpose of introducing the field to a wide audience of students, researchers, and practitioners.
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The measurement of efficiency of production
TL;DR: The Structure of Production Technology as discussed by the authors, Radial Input Efficiency Measures, Hyperbolic Graph Efficiency Measures and Non-radial Efficiency Measures for Scale Efficiency and Toward Empirical Implementation.
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Institutions of Higher Education as Multi-Product Firms: Economies of Scale and Scope
TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple-output cost function is estimated for institutions of higher education in the United States, employing data for 1981-82, and the authors indicate the existence of scope economies (at least up to a point) for both public and private institutions.
Higher education: a policy statement
TL;DR: The Australian Commonwealth Government's strategy for the long-term development of Australia's higher education system is outlined in this article, with the focus on growth and equity as the main objectives.
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Performance indicators in higher education
Robert Ball,Jalil Halwachi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that performance indicators cannot be used in a meaningful way without a clear view of institutional goals, and present a critical review of work done in this field and the conditions under which they believe performance indicators may be used to give valid insights into performance of institutions.