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Çetin, Münevver; Maral, Muammer – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to present the general trend and direction of the research, both in terms of content and methodology, from a critical point of view by examining the studies on the efficiency of higher education in Türkiye and thus, to shed light on new research to be done and to make suggestions to researchers. Bibliographic analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Efficiency, Educational Research
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Kurniawati, Sari; Sumaryana, Asep; Kristiadi, J.B.; Bekti, Herijanto – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
This study aims to identify the influence of the implementation of the Specific Purpose Grant (SPG) policy in achieving the national priorities in Banten Province. This study was conducted on the basis of a descriptive qualitative design by using interviews and observations for data collection. Findings indicate that the implementation of the SPG…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Grants, Expenditures
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Ige, Akindele Matthew – Education 3-13, 2014
Inspite of the fact that primary education forms the foundation on which education at the secondary and tertiary levels rests, the issue of poverty is undermining its roles in Nigeria. In this paper, this issue of poverty of primary education was examined, from the perspectives of its history, scope, indicators, in terms of inadequacy of resource…
Descriptors: Poverty, Elementary Education, Educational Resources, Educational History
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Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill – Economics of Education Review, 2009
A multiproduct cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years. The panel approach allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model which provides considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on costs of inter-institutional differences in the cost…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Costs, Efficiency, Economics
Gonand, Frederic – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
This paper assesses the impact on economic growth of increased efficiency of public spending in primary and lower-secondary education. Higher efficiency in public spending in schools can bolster growth through two main channels. On the one hand, it can allow a transfer of labour from the public sector to the business sector at unchanged…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
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Carnoy, Martin; Gove, Amber K.; Loeb, Susanna; Marshall, Jeffrey H.; Socias, Miguel – Economics of Education Review, 2008
This study uses rich empirical data from Brazil to assess how a government program (PDE) that decentralizes school management decisions changes what goes on in schools and how these changes affect student outcomes. It appears that the PDE resulted in some improvements in management and learning materials, but little change in other areas including…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Community Relations
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Michaels, Mervin G.; And Others – 1973
The proposed methodology was designed to implement the Board of Governor's January 9, 1973, motion regarding the translation of the university's 1973-74 operating budgeting into a program budget showing the resources required by the various university programs and outputs. The methodology defines the main functions of the university in terms of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Databases, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Owen, Glyn; Fletcher, Mick; Lester, Stan – Learning and Skills Development Agency (NJ1), 2006
This report reviews the relationship in England between institutional size and the cost of Level 3 (mainly A-level) provision in three major settings: sixth form colleges (SFCs), general further education colleges (GFECs) and school sixth forms (SSFs). The study models how institutions might behave, given the funding regime and cost structures. It…
Descriptors: School Size, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Measures (Individuals)
Kubursi, A. A. – 1994
This study gauges the secondary impacts of Ontario, Canada's higher education system, in an attempt to define the boundary of production that encloses the economic activities involved in sustaining the demands put on the system by normal university activities. The accounting framework, upon which the impact model is based, is Statistics Canada…
Descriptors: Colleges, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment, Educational Economics
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Schenker-Wicki, Andrea; Hurlimann, Mark – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2006
In the past decade, based on a change in paradigms in university policy, performance funding on a cantonal and central state level has been introduced in Switzerland: the universities have been granted higher autonomy, combined with global budgets and contract management by the responsible authorities (cantonal authorities). At the same time, the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Policy Analysis, Laws, Program Effectiveness
McKenzie, Phillip – 1983
The first part of this paper discusses two principal forms elaborated upon in previous literature for describing the relation between per pupil operating costs and school enrollment size. The first of these forms indicates that average per pupil costs decline up to a point as enrollment increases, reach a minimum, and then rise with further school…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Efficiency