“…In the area of education, DEA has been widely used for the assessment of efficiency of the school provision at different levels (Grosskopf et al, 1999;Portela and Thanassoulis, 2001;Färe et al, 2006;Portela et al, 2012), universities and their departments (Avkiran, 2001;Thanassoulis et al, 2011), and the impact of education policies (Bradley et al, 2001;Grosskopf and Moutray, 2001). …”