University efficiency and public funding for higher education in Bulgaria

How Efficient Are Malaysian Public Universities? A Comparative Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

“…From Table 4, OUM is found to be the most efficient in generating the fees income and income excluding government grant. This is consistent with the finding of Tochkov, Nenovsky & Tochkov (2012) where the private universities have higher efficiency scores as compared to public universities which are heavily subsidised by the government. For income excluding government grant, the result shows that if the public universities (UM, UiTM and UUM) could be as efficient as OUM, they could generate an extra income of 5.61%, 12.31% and 61.4% for UM, UiTM and UUM respectively.…”

“…In Bulgaria, as revealed by Tochkov, Nenovsky and Tochkov (2012), the higher education sector has the following characteristics which are quite similar to Malaysia: private and public universities (three categories of public university: research, comprehensive and teaching), high public spending of public universities, reformation to cut public higher education funding, and searching for mechanism to allocate limited public funding on higher education. Using the input of academic staff, area, library items and research funds; output of enrolled student, starting salary and unemployment rate of graduates, and a number of publications, Tochkov, Nenovsky & Tochkov (2012) found that Bulgarian public universities are less efficient as compared to private universities, and public funding of higher education is negatively related to efficiency.…”

“…The current allocation of public funding is claimed to be not based on the efficiency because it was found that less efficient institutions were allocated larger funding as compared to the more efficient ones. The finding of Tochkov, Nenovsky & Tochkov (2012) suggested that in evaluating the efficiency of a public university, it is important to include the third party -private or overseas university as comparison.…”

“…Using the input of academic staff, area, library items and research funds; output of enrolled student, starting salary and unemployment rate of graduates, and a number of publications, Tochkov, Nenovsky & Tochkov (2012) found that Bulgarian public universities are less efficient as compared to private universities, and public funding of higher education is negatively related to efficiency. The current allocation of public funding is claimed to be not based on the efficiency because it was found that less efficient institutions were allocated larger funding as compared to the more efficient ones.…”

The Technical Efficiency of Departments of Shiraz Medical School in Research Arena Using Data Envelopment Analysis

“…efficiency and monetary fund has a negative relationship [18]. As Sonha and Rosha state, inefficient universities waste resources [20].…”