Measuring the efficiency of higher education: case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Figurek, Aleksandra; Goncharuk, Anatoliy G.; Shynkarenko, Larysa; Kovalenko, Oleksandr Viktorovych

doi:10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.13

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“…In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this is a common practice in its higher learning institutions. Nowadays, the country's higher educational quality assurance is on track to closely aligning itself with European Union standards and norms (Brankovic & Brankovic, 2013;Constantinides & Stagno, 2011;Figurek, Goncharuk, Shynkarenko, & Kovalenko, 2019). This paper showcases Bosnia and Herzegovina's educational quality assurance by utilizing textual analysis methods similar to those employed by Ilinska et al (2016), Cunningham-Nelson et al (2018, and Zhang and Law (2013).…”

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Textual Analysis of Quality Assurance Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Higher Education Sector

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Education is the bedrock of any nation. It is essential for individual and societal growth and development. This study investigates the role of quality assurance in achieving the expected outcome of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s higher education sector. A textual analysis is used to examine the National Qualification Framework. The study is based on a documented review and descriptive analysis of student enrollment and programs of studies. The textual analysis is largely qualitative in nature. Unlike the global trend, it can be seen that student enrollment is on the decline in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was found that quality assurance is an indispensable tool for strengthening the higher education sector and for achieving the desired change and outcomes that education offers. It was also found that study programs and curricula are pivotal for teaching and learning processes, and that a unified qualification framework is essential for achieving set objectives of education at all levels. The study recommended that sound quality assurance systems as well as an appropriate structure for monitoring and accreditation be put in place and be judiciously followed in order to achieve the desired outcomes in conjunction with the set objectives of higher education in the country. Moreover, certain pressures (i.e., democratic, economic, and systemic) and obstacles are looked at that show signs of epistemological, political, and institutional barriers that Bosnia and Herzegovina faces as a developing country Europeanizing its system of education.

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Textual Analysis of Quality Assurance Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Higher Education Sector

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“…Technical efficiency incorporates the value added in educational institutions as an output of the educational system (López-Matín & Gaviria, 2016). Therefore, technical efficiency, like many other studies (Figurek et al, 2019;Mahmudi et al, 2014;Nazarko & Saparauskas, 2014), is used in this study as a measure of efficiency of higher educational institutions in Bangladesh and comparing efficiency among them with an estimated efficiency score.…”

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Efficiency of Public and Private Universities in Bangladesh: A Comparative Approach using Data Envelopment Analysis

Khan

Mazumder

2022

Journal of Education and Research

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The aim of this study is to measure the efficiency of higher educational institutions and investigate the comparative efficiency of public and private higher education in Bangladesh. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), technical efficiency of 15 public universities and 20 private universities of Bangladesh are evaluated over the period 2008-2018. The empirical results reveal that public universities on an average operate between 56.2 to 80.7 percent level of technical efficiency while the private universities between 49.1 to 77.6 percent level over the study period. That is, universities in Bangladesh, on an average, do not operate efficiently in terms of resource utilization. Over the years only 33% public universities and 25% private universities are found efficient. The inefficient universities can improve their efficiency by utilizing full capacity of the inputs or reducing the amount of inputs at the estimated inefficiency rate of the respective universities. Findings also show that the public universities have the scope of producing 1.24 to 1.78 times and private universities 1.28 to 2.04 times as much output from the same level of inputs. Special monitoring by the regulatory authorities is required for inefficient universities to enhance their efficiency level.

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“…The results showed that agriculture is the most efficient domain while manufacturing technologies, construction, and engineering had the worst performance in terms of budget expenditures. They concluded by emphasizing the need to find proper solutions for reducing the number of graduate students in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences, engineering, manufacturing technologies, and construction [13].…”

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Preventive Risk Management of Resource Allocation in Romanian Higher Education by Assessing Relative Performance of Study Programs with DEA Method

Olariu

Brad

2022

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Risk management is a key activity in every organization. The identification and evaluation of all risks in higher education institutions lead to the continuous monitoring of investments in people, high technology, and innovation. This paper evaluates the relative efficiency of study programs in Romanian higher education using the DEA method. This study is based on 38 study programs from a public university in Romania, using a traditional DEA approach: CRS-DEA and VRS-DEA models, with an output orientation for three academic years (2016–2019). To avoid distortions in the efficiency scores, we decided to implement the bootstrap method to correct DEA efficiencies. The results show that only four study programs were efficient during this period under the CRS-DEA approach, and eight study programs were efficient under the VRS-DEA model. According to scale efficiency and the bootstrap method, the results also showed that four study programs were efficient during the period analyzed. Finally, we observed that the inefficiency of study programs is relatively persistent (89%), compared with efficient DMUs (11%). Based on these findings, higher education institutions should consider the possibility of increasing the quality of study programs correlated with the degree of attractiveness of various programs in the current socio-economic environment.

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Measuring the efficiency of higher education: case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Textual Analysis of Quality Assurance Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Higher Education Sector

Textual Analysis of Quality Assurance Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Higher Education Sector

Efficiency of Public and Private Universities in Bangladesh: A Comparative Approach using Data Envelopment Analysis

Preventive Risk Management of Resource Allocation in Romanian Higher Education by Assessing Relative Performance of Study Programs with DEA Method

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