Efficiency at Faculties of Economics in the Czech Public Higher Education Institutions: Two Different Approaches

Flégl, Martin; Vltavská, Kristýna

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“…In higher education, there is no consensus on which variables to include for outputs, inputs, input prices, quality, and environment, and even to model the production process and the cost structure. We concentrate in non-for profit universities and university systems as a whole and do not consider economies of scale and scope studies in universities, and on departments' or other administrative units to study efficiency within one university, as for example in Flégl and Vltavská (2013) or in Martín (2016). Graduates, publications, and patents are the most common outputs for teaching and research activities, respectively.…”

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Higher Education Efficiency Frontier Analysis: A Review of Variables to Consider

Ferro

D'Elía

2020

ERIES Journal

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The measurement of efficiency in higher education has gained a growing interest in recent years, especially due to the expansion of the university system. This paper provides a review of the literature on efficiency in higher education institutions by covering empirical articles which applied frontier efficiency measurement techniques from 1997 to 2019. We review the methodological approaches used, both parametric and non-parametric techniques, such as Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist index and Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Secondly, we list the applied inputs, input prices, outputs, quality, and environment variables and based on the overview, we discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the different empirical proxy variables used. We address the importance of characterizing students and research funding as raw materials of both the teaching and research services, respectively, and we provide suggestions on how to deal with them empirically. We also discuss the difference between quality and environmental variables, and we give some practical indications to distinguish them in doubtful cases.

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Higher Education Efficiency Frontier Analysis: A Review of Variables to Consider

Ferro

D'Elía

2020

ERIES Journal

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“…This study showed that in some studies, the efficiency of universities in the fields of education and research has been studied separately (36,41,42,48,53,69,76,87,88,101,104,106,118,126…”

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A review on inputs and outputs in determining the efficiency of universities of medical sciences by data envelopment analysis method

Mojahedian

Mohammadi

Abdollahi

et al. 2020

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By increasing the number of university students and limited funds allocated to universities, maintaining the efficiency of universities resources is necessary. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is one of the most widely used methods to evaluate efficiency of universities. →What this article adds:To evaluate efficiency via DEA method, selecting outputs and inputs plays an important role. Results of this study determine most inputs and outputs that can be used to evaluate the efficiency of universities of medical sciences.

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“…Integration of the Czech Republic's into European structures resulted in joining the Bologna Declaration (Stastna & Walterova, 2014). The integration of the Bologna Declaration into Czech education system results in changing the university education system (Flegl & Vltavska, 2013;Musil &Fischer, 2015;Nedomova, Doucek, & Maryška, 2015;Sigmund, 2015;Sperkova & Nedomova, 2015) and opening and making available the study programs of Czech universities to foreign students (Kohanova, 2012;Kuncova & Mulac, 2015;OECD, 2009). Foreign students can apply for study program in Czech or for foreign-language study programs that are usually in English, German, or Russian.…”

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Comparison of Applicant's Results for Studies from Russia and Vietnam at the University of Economics, Prague

Maryska¹,

Doucek²,

Nedomova³

2017

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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is analysis of applicants for study at the University of Economics, Prague (UEP) that are coming from foreign countries. The second aim is to learn the graduation rate of foreign students. Background: Knowledge about applicants results are important for changing entrance exams according to the changing situation in high school education systems and according to the changing requirements coming from teachers at UEP. The background question is, if the both components of entrance exams should have the same significance. Methodology: Entrance exams results were analysed for 2009-2016 period. We used standard statistics methods supported by the IBM SPSS tool and Microsoft Excel. All data were processed by way of Microsoft SQL Server. We analyzed the faculties that require Mathematics and English entrance exams. We are comparing mainly results of applicants from Russia and Vietnam. For graduation rate estimations the logit model approach has been applied. The data for our analysis came from UEP information systems and hard-copy applications and were then set anonymous. Contribution: Detailed analysis of situation at the UEP and guideline on how to process similar research at another universities. Paper offers comparison of Russian education system results in Mathematics and English with the education system of Vietnam. Further contribution is for Vietnamese potential applicants for study in the Czech Republic. Findings: Based on our analysis, we concluded that total number of applicants for studies was 109,996 students at the UEP during the analyzed period and applicants from Vietnam 1,686 and from Russia 7,227. For studies were accepted 717 applicants from Vietnam (42.5%) and 1,986 applicants from Russia (27.5%). We were also able to prove a slightly positive correlation between the number of points obtained for the English entrance exam and the mathematics entrance exam. However, this correlation goes slightly downhill over time. Further findings are from logit model of correlation between number of obtained points and successfully studies completion. The border for effective acceptance of students from this data set is approximately 170 obtained points in entrance exam. Recommendations for Practitioners : This analysis offers results of entrance exams on UEP from English and Mathematics. Recommendation could be held in comparison of education systems efficiency in Russia and Vietnam in these two areas with reflection requirements on students of economy at University of Economics, Prague. Recommendation for Researchers: The way of analysis, number of analyzed sample, final data and conclusions from this research. Using logit model for study success rate modeling. Offer for cooperation in analysis of entrance exams data queues. Impact on Society: Comparison of entrance exams results on University of Economics, Prague between Russian and Vietnamese applicants for study in the area of economics. Comparison of education systems effectiveness in Vietnam and in Russia in relation to economics studies in EU country. Future Research: Process this analysis in longer period and extend for another countries and nationalities. Next step planned for this is year is analysis of relation among results of Mock Entrance Exams – Entrance Exams – Study Results. This is long-term plan. In next 5 years, we should be able to answer question if there is some probability, that students failed during standard entrance exams when these students pass mock exams for example because he was in stress?

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Efficiency at Faculties of Economics in the Czech Public Higher Education Institutions: Two Different Approaches

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Higher Education Efficiency Frontier Analysis: A Review of Variables to Consider

Higher Education Efficiency Frontier Analysis: A Review of Variables to Consider

A review on inputs and outputs in determining the efficiency of universities of medical sciences by data envelopment analysis method

Comparison of Applicant's Results for Studies from Russia and Vietnam at the University of Economics, Prague

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