Stretching the Higher Education Dollar Addressing the Declining Productivity of Higher Education Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Stretching the Higher Education Dollar Initiatives for Containing the Cost of Higher Education

Higher education, technical efficiency and total productivity changes: evidence from Iran's manufacturing industries

The purpose of this article was to estimate the effect of higher education on total productivity changes and technical efficiency in the 4-digit classification code of ISIC in Iran during the period of 1994-04. In this regard, a two-way stage approach was used. In the first stage, Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) and technical efficiency index by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic...

Performance-Based Resource Allocation in Higher Education: A Black Box Containing the Paradox of Increasing Efficiency and Decreasing Productivity

To cope with escalating financial resource limitations from both expanding demands for higher education and experiencing a relatively reduction in public support, higher education units have profoundly adopted a performance-based resource allocation mechanism in recent years. Nevertheless, empirical evaluation findings show that the presumed improvement in performance has not been fulfilled. Us...

Higher education expansion policy in Iran and its impact on educational justice

After World War II, the need for skilled labors in the economic market and democratic demands provided the setting for higher education expansion in all over the world and this has become a universal phenomenon.  In addition, higher education in Iran that initiated with the justice-seeking goals has experienced significant expansion in the last two decades. Nowadays expansion of higher educatio...

بودجه‌ریزی عملیاتی؛ ابزاری برای بهبود روش‌ها و برنامه‌ها در دانشگاه با نگاهی ویژه به سیستم ABC

Considering the ratification of Higher Education Ministrys organizational structure law and Irans Fifth Development Plan, it becomes a must to make changes in universities management system. The most crucial part of such changes is related to universities financial system. In the current budgetary system of the higher education institutes, budgeting is done according to various factors such as ...