Abstract Universities can only be as successful their staff. Without qualified staff and effective hiring practises, universities cannot capitalise on talents. For this reason, strategic HCM is necessary to attract retain skilled employees. A university’s workforce – from professors administrators critical fostering innovation, conducting research, providing educational opportunities, contribut...

Esta investigación analiza la producción científica de las universidades chilenas para el período 2013-2017 utilizando un panel datos balanceados. La metodología utiliza una función agregada del tipo Cobb-Douglas resuelto por medio modelo efectos fijos Análisis Frontera Estocástica (AFE). Los principales resultados muestran que los modelos son equivalentes y complementarios en su análisis cuant...

Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’, and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation’s absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university...

Introduction Budgetary pressures are affecting universities of all kinds: public, private, large and small. Georgia Tech is certainly not immune from this trend, and has been forced to make hard decisions because of its fiscal problems. Despite these difficulties, it is crucial that Georgia Tech and other universities find ways to weather the storm without sacrificing quality of education or ac...

study of economic efficiency is of particular significance in evaluation of the public sector of the economy. there two alternative critorias for the measurement of efficiency: namely ratio analysis, and frontier 'analysis. the first criteria takes the ratio of inputs as compared to the outputs. the second criteria, however.first attempts to stablisb the product and cost efficiency frontie...

Taking into account of the difficulties in improving utilization efficiency of the larger-scale and expensive research education resources, distributed in national universities, an education resources sharing grid based on network was investigated and developed. The grid architecture, sharing mechanism and framework that address these problems by defining a resource selection service for locati...

Numerically small disciplines can be jeopardized by geographic difficulties, if student populations at universities are small and distances between them large. This problem could be addressed, if teaching resources could be shared among several universities and students in several locations could be taught simultaneously. We present the results of a trial in simultaneous Internet and videoconfe...