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A Data Envelopment Analysis of the Efficiency of Victorian TAFE Institutes

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  • Malcolm Abbott
  • Chris Doucouliagos

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In recent years the provision of vocational education and training has been recognised as having a vital role to play in improving Australia's economic performance and in alleviating the hardship of the long term unemployed. The importance of education and training gives rise to the issue of operating educational institutions with a high level of efficiency. In this article, Data Envelopment Analysis is used to derive estimates of the technical and scale efficiency of Victorian Technical and Further Education Institutes in 1995. The results reveal substantial dispersion in technical and scale efficiencies. Regression analysis is used to identify variables which are associated with technical inefficiency.

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  • Malcolm Abbott & Chris Doucouliagos, 2002. "A Data Envelopment Analysis of the Efficiency of Victorian TAFE Institutes," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 35(1), pages 55-69, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:35:y:2002:i:1:p:55-69
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00223
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    1. Johnes, Jill, 2015. "Operational Research in education," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 243(3), pages 683-696.
    2. Fieger, Peter & Villano, Renato & Cooksey, Ray, 2015. "Two dimensional efficiency measurements in Australian TAFE Institutes," MPRA Paper 64625, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    4. M. Ariff & Viverita, 2008. "On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms," CARF F-Series CARF-F-136, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
    5. Fieger, Peter & Villano, Renato & Cooksey, Ray, 2015. "Efficiency of Australian TAFE and further education providers," MPRA Paper 64626, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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