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Efficiency in higher education — Concepts and problems

✍ Scribed by Jan Sadlak

Publisher
Springer
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
447 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-1560

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✦ Synopsis

The problem of measuring efficiency in higher education is of increasing importance because of changes in socio-economic conditions and most notably rising enrolment rates. The article discusses problems of definition which occur in studying efficiency in higher education especially on a comparative basis. Illustrations are drawn from formulations of the problem in countries with different socio-economic and higher education systems.

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