TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficiency in education
AU - Johnes, Jill
AU - Portela, Maria
AU - Thanassoulis, Emmanuel
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Education is important at national, local and individual levels. Its benefits accrue both to society and to individuals, and as such provision of education in many countries is paid for at least in part from the public purse. With competing demands for government funding, it is important for education to be provided as efficiently as possible. Efficiency occurs when outputs from education (such as test results or value added) are produced at the lowest level of resource (be that financial or, for example, the innate ability of students). This special issue is devoted to the topic of efficiency in education, and is well-timed given that governments around the world struggle with public finances in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008. In this paper, we explore and provide an overview of the themes of the special issue and introduce the papers contained therein.
AB - Education is important at national, local and individual levels. Its benefits accrue both to society and to individuals, and as such provision of education in many countries is paid for at least in part from the public purse. With competing demands for government funding, it is important for education to be provided as efficiently as possible. Efficiency occurs when outputs from education (such as test results or value added) are produced at the lowest level of resource (be that financial or, for example, the innate ability of students). This special issue is devoted to the topic of efficiency in education, and is well-timed given that governments around the world struggle with public finances in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008. In this paper, we explore and provide an overview of the themes of the special issue and introduce the papers contained therein.
KW - data envelopment analysis
KW - education
KW - efficiency
KW - frontier estimation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029844121&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/s41274-016-0109-z
DO - 10.1057/s41274-016-0109-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029844121
VL - 68
SP - 331
EP - 338
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
SN - 0160-5682
IS - 4
ER -
