Changing u.fiiversities into viltU;~ universities of the new millennium represents a methodological challenge. Traditional universities are conservative institutions not used to s~ch radical change. Successful change thus presupposes a prof~und understanding of both the traditional and the virtual university culture, and an appropriate method for implementing change must then be selected. ~ or~...

Introduction: Efficiency evaluation of universities and facultiesis one of the tools that help managers to identify the departments’strengths and weakness. The main objective of the presentresearch was to measure and compare the technical efficiency ofShiraz school of medicine departments using Data EnvelopmentAnalysis (DEA) technique.Methods: This cross-sectional and retrospective study wasper...

The work described in this report was carried out under contract as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Cleaner Coal Technology Transfer Programme. The Programme is managed by ETSU. The views and judgements expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of ETSU or the Department of Trade and Industry. SUMMARY ETSU on behalf of the UK Department...

abstractthe present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of esp instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional esp teachers. the main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of esp teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach esp. to find the answer, a questionnaire was ...

Introduction Collaborative innovation is a trans-disciplinary approach for developing the wholeness synergy to improve the competitiveness of an organization through holistic, competitive and complementary interactions between and among innovation participants in a specific environment (Bommert, 2010; Swink, 2006). The collaborative innovation system essentially consists of three sectors: indus...

This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries between 2007 and 2009. Exploiting comparable international data improves the estimation of the production technology, allows to assess the distance of individual countries to the global frontier and enables ...

In a context of financial stringency like that characterizing the current economic landscape in Portugal and in several other countries, accountability and efficiency questions gain an additional relevance in the higher education sector. In this paper we apply DEA techniques to evaluate the comparative efficiency of public higher education institutions in Portugal. The analysis is performed for...

The level of development of higher education is a sign of a country's comprehensive national strength and the level of economic and social development. In this paper, the author makes comprehensive evaluation of the resource utilization efficiency in higher education, by using large scale network data, the result shows that the main reason lead to non DEA effective in colleges and universities ...