Efficiency of the teaching-industry linkage in the Australian vocational education and training

Tran, Carolyn‐Thi Thanh Dung

doi:10.1186/s40461-021-00116-0

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“…The development incorporates the dynamic effects in the network structure to calculate the sub-decision-making units' efficiency and the system's efficiency. Other theoretical developments followed, and different theoretical-practical propositions arose in several segments: health [33], banks [34], transportation [35], education [36], research and development [37], and energy [13].…”

Section: Dynamic Dea With Network Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Allocating Benefits Due to Shared Resources Using Shapley Value and Nucleolus in Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Torres,

Ramos

2024

Mathematics

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Shared resources are common among supply chain partners and also occur in multiple linked stages of an internal network. The sharing of these resources impacts the organization’s profits. This study is focused on the potential benefits of resource sharing on a three-stage network system and on the profit improvement allocation. Previous treatments concentrate on defining optimal proportions to allocate resources and disregard the impacts of allocations to promote cooperation and are limited to static evaluations. Data Envelopment Analysis performs the decision-making units (DMUs) efficiency measurement. Methodological advances have resulted in models that analyze their internal structure and temporal impacts on efficiency. We propose an integrated cooperative game and dynamic network DEA that considers known quantities of resources used in each stage and the time effects to optimize the system’s profit. Each DMU stage is a player, and we investigate performance before and after resource sharing. Using Shapley value and Nucleolus, it is possible to allocate the benefits obtained based on the marginal contributions of each stage, providing incentives to motivate and maintain cooperation. A numerical example is used to illustrate the method. The results confirm the identification of inefficient DMUs and that sharing resources allows for profit increase for all of them.

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Section: Dynamic Dea With Network Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Allocating Benefits Due to Shared Resources Using Shapley Value and Nucleolus in Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Torres,

Ramos

2024

Mathematics

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“…International VET has been much debated at the nexus of the commercialisation of education and justice for international students (Bagnall, 2003; Cully, 2006; Hobart, 1999; Moran and Ryan, 2004; Smith and Smith, 1999; Tran, 2013a; 2013b). Client-centred tertiary policies are an aspect of the market revolution that has taken place in the last two decades, with Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States and Canada seeking to improve their competitive position in regional and world markets (Nakar, 2012; Ryan, 2002).…”

Section: Reasonable Adjustment As An Economic Strategy For Responding...mentioning

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Reasonable adjustment: Is it a way forward to manage diversity and equity issues in vocational education and training?

Nakar

2023

Policy Futures in Education

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Literature has highlighted the importance of having a reasonable adjustment approach as a measure of social justice to provide inclusive education for all students. However, the growing globalisation and commercialisation of vocational education and training has tended to encourage provider organisations to use more flexible reasonable adjustments to attract and retain more students in this domain. The framework of this new reasonable adjustment approach expands on the previous reasonable management approach provided to facilitate disadvantaged students. By introducing innovative and flexible teaching and assessment, this notion of reasonable adjustment now incorporates market-like efforts to secure more income in the form of fees from students. However, there remains unanswered the question of how flexible the reasonable adjustment should be. This paper questions whether achieving a more diverse student population has delivered anything of value to the students who are making up that greater diversity. Perhaps the notion of reasonableness has been applied with too narrow a focus on a reasonable diversity of student entry characteristics, rather than also embracing their learning attainment and subsequent workplace success. Reasonable adjustment may well be a way forward, but perhaps more attention needs to be paid to the concept of reasonableness before that can happen.

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“…Dynamic DEA (DDEA), and dynamic DEA models with network structure (DNDEA) represent DEA alternatives available to incorporate temporal aspects into efficiency measures. It is possible to identify works that have addressed university evaluation, considering DDEA [13][14][15] or DNDEA [16][17][18][19][20].…”

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Are Brazilian Higher Education Institutions Efficient in Their Graduate Activities? A Two-Stage Dynamic Data-Envelopment-Analysis Cooperative Approach

Torres,

Ramos

2024

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Higher education evaluation presents itself as a worldwide trend. It aims to improve performance due to its importance for economic and personal growth. Graduate activities are essential for Brazilian research and innovation systems. However, previous studies have disregarded the importance of this educational level and have evaluated efficiency by jointly considering teaching and research or only undergraduate courses. Therefore, this study contributes to Brazilian reality by proving a national graduate activities efficiency evaluation that considers them as a two-stage system (formative and scientific production stages). The study provides three main methodological contributions by presenting a new centralized two-stage dynamic network data envelopment analysis (DNDEA) model with shared resources. Besides measuring efficiency, an efficiency decomposition based on a leader–follower assumption shows managers how much efficiency can alter when one of the stages needs to be prioritized. Finally, a new framework based on modified virtual inputs and outputs provides a bi-dimensional representation of the efficiency frontier. Results indicate the usefulness of the approach for ranking universities, and the need to improve scientific production, highlighting the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the formative process efficiency and showing no significant regional discrepancies regarding performance.

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Efficiency of the teaching-industry linkage in the Australian vocational education and training

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

Allocating Benefits Due to Shared Resources Using Shapley Value and Nucleolus in Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Allocating Benefits Due to Shared Resources Using Shapley Value and Nucleolus in Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Reasonable adjustment: Is it a way forward to manage diversity and equity issues in vocational education and training?

Are Brazilian Higher Education Institutions Efficient in Their Graduate Activities? A Two-Stage Dynamic Data-Envelopment-Analysis Cooperative Approach

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