Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

Related articles appearing in the international journals from 1996 to 2005 are gathered and
analyzed so that the following three questions can be answered:“What kind of decision …

In this paper a procedure to evaluate proposals for Educational Innovation Projects is
proposed. This methodology should help the Institute of Educational Sciences of the …

We study the possible implications of incentive schemes as a tool to promote efficiency in
the management of universities. In this paper, we show that by designing internal financial …

This article presents a model for the analysis of cost efficiency within the framework of data
envelopment analysis models. It calculates the cost excess, separating a unit of production …

Performance-based budgeting (PBB) aims to formulate and manage public budgetary
resources to improve managerial decisions based on actual performance measures of …

This study proposes a methodology to serve as a guiding mechanism for the allocation and
management of university financial resources taking efficiency as its objective. Specifically …

University managers should be aware of the importance that efficiency has for their own
universities, orientating their actions towards research and teaching excellence. This study …

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in both developed and developing countries are
confronted with increasing pressure to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency while …

Resource allocation is one of the major decision problems arising in higher education.
Resources must be allocated optimally in such a way that the performance of universities …