Efficiency of Public and Private Service Delivery: The Case of Secondary Education

In the 21st century there is a lot of attention on sustainability (whether social or environmental). However, unfortunately, the economic perspective has been largely neglected in the field of education. This article deals with a quantitative assessment of the efficiency of tertiary education in individual EU countries, which allows to include the economic aspect of the evaluation. Furthermore, we are expanding the commonly established evaluation system based on the number of graduates to include another area, namely the graduate's employability on the labor market. We believe that for a correct evaluation of individual education systems it is necessary to include the relevance and quality of acquired knowledge and skills. Although the efficiency assessment is carried out for the whole EU, the results are presented according to identified groups of countries that have similar education systems. Countries such as Ireland and France emerge as top performers because of their ability to produce large numbers of graduates given their resources. Malta and Luxembourg have also performed very well in the efficiency assessment, although they produce far fewer graduates in terms of resources, but thanks to the system set up, graduates in these countries are highly employable in the labor market.

Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 84%

Graduate Employability as a Key to the Efficiency of Tertiary Education

Blašková,

Staňková

2023

“…One of the most frequently published areas in the DEA literature is education (Liu et al, 2013). However, most of these studies used the standard DEA method, thus neglecting the sub-processes of decision units (Abbott and Doucouliagos, 2003;Avkiran, 2001;Doğan, 2018;Flégl et al, 2013;Halásková et al, 2022;Johnes and Johnes, 1995;Nazarko and Šaparauskas, 2014;Özel, 2014;Tomkins and Green, 1988).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Efficiency of Turkish Research Universities via Two-Stage Network DEA with Shared Inputs Model

Dogan

2023

The efficiency of universities, which have a network structure of production process, is an essential component of performance measurement in education. However, most previous studies use traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which disregards the network structure of the production process in universities. This study adopts a two-stage Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) with shared inputs model to assess the overall, teaching and research efficiencies of Turkish research universities. The findings show that only 6 out of 23 research universities are efficient, and some universities with lower world rankings are more efficient than those with higher rankings. On the other hand, no significant difference was found between the efficiency levels of regions with a high level of socio-economic development and regions with a relatively low level of socio-economic development. The study also evaluates the effects of different priority scenarios on efficiency and the optimal allocation of shared inputs between sub-processes. This study provides guidance for universities seeking to improve their performance and for the Council of Higher Education (CHE) in determining incentives for research universities. It also promotes the use of multi-stage NDEA with shared inputs model over traditional DEA for accurate efficiency assessment in the field of education.

“…Chen et al (2021) employed a twostage DEA model to measure the operating efficiency of 52 universities in China regarding teaching and research activities. Halásková et al (2022) investigated the efficiency of 26 private and public secondary education schools in Slovakia through the DEA analysis. Sagarra et al (2017) investigated the research and teaching efficiency at 55 universities in Mexico.…”

Section: Efficiency Evaluations In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, the second input constitutes the school-student ratio (SSR), which reflects the accessibility of education. A similar approach was also used by Ramzi et al (2016) and Halásková et al (2022), who used the number of teachers per 100 students, the number of classes per 100 students, and the number of schools per million inhabitants as measures describing schools' quality.…”

Section: Model Structure and Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A State-Level Analysis of Mexican Education and Its Impact on Regional, Economic, and Social Development: Two-Stage Network DEA Approach

Flegl,

Avilés-Sacoto,

Güemes-Castorena

et al. 2023

Education has been considered a cornerstone for human and economic development. Although there is a national educational strategy in most countries, various implementations are at the state level. This paper studies academic efficiency at the primary and secondary levels and the human development dimensions –long and healthy life, being knowledgeable, and enjoying a decent standard of life– at the state level. For this purpose, a network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) with two stages was proposed. The first stage studies the educational process efficiency, while the second evaluates its impact in the form of the human development index. The study found significant differences between the evaluated states in the education stage, where the lowest efficiencies are mainly in the southwest of Mexico. The results also indicate that better education quality leads to greater regional, economic, and social development at the state level. This study contributes to the NDEA applications on the understanding of the impact that education has in improving the development of the regions holistically.