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Performance assessment in higher education in Britain |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, SAGE, the Nelson Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA;2. Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;1. Linde AG, Engineering Division, R&D Process Development, Dr.-Carl-von-Linde-Straße 6-14, D-82049 Pullach im Isartal, Germany;2. Process Dynamics and Operations Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Sekr. KWT-9, Str. des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;1. University of Brescia, Department of Information Engineering, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy;2. A2A Reti Elettriche SpA, Via Lamarmora 230, 25124 Brescia, Italy |
| Abstract: | All public sector organisations in the UK have witnessed changes in funding arrangements during the 1980s as part of the Government's drive to make them more accountable to the tax-payer. The development of performance indicators is seen as an essential step to ensure that such organisations provide value for money. This paper examines the possibility of constructing measures of the performance of UK universities. A methodology is developed in the framework of production theory and uses multiple regression techniques to estimate the relationship between the outputs and inputs of universities. Around 80% of the inter-university variation in four output measures can be explained by corresponding variations in several input measures. This highlights the need to take into account the inputs available to a university when comparing its output performance with that achieved by other institutions. The problems of interpreting an array of performance indicators are also clearly demonstrated. |
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