Performance Indicators and Accountability in Portuguese Public Universities

2018 ◽  
pp. 210-233
Author(s):  
Augusta da Conceição Santos Ferreira ◽  
Carlos Santos ◽  
Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo ◽  
Judite Gonçalves ◽  
Jonas da Silva Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Performance

The public sector in Portugal has undergone major reforms, coercing institutions of higher education into greater transparency in accountability and performance indicators. The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the level of disclosure of performance indicators by the Higher Education Institutions in Portuguese Public Universities, with a special emphasis on the obligatory nature and to evaluate if there are factors that influence the level of disclosure. This study was based on the content analysis of the management or activity reports of the 13 Portuguese public universities to calculate de level of disclosure, and used the quantitative analysis based on the Least-squares regression on the investigation of factors that influence the level of disclosure. According to the data obtained, it can be concluded that Portuguese Public Universities discloses performance indicators imposed by law and voluntarily, and it was verified that the level of disclosure is influenced by the variables dimension, financing from other sources of funding and the ranking of web of universities.

scholarly journals Determinants and Performance Indicators of Higher Education Institutions in Croatia

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Ćukušić ◽  
◽  
Željko Garača ◽  
Mario Jadrić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
And Performance

Metrics, Targets and Performance

2006 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 80-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Andrew Stevens ◽  
Lucy Stokes ◽  
Mary O'Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Acute Hospital ◽  
Performance Management System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Productivity Measure ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Uk

The setting and use of targets in the public sector has generated a growing amount of interest in the UK. This has occurred at a time when more analysts and policymakers are grasping the nettle of measuring performance in and of the public sector. We outline a typology of performance indicators and a set of desiderata. We compare the outcome of a performance management system — star ratings for acute hospital trusts in England — with a productivity measure analogous to those used in the analysis of the private sector. We find that the two are almost entirely unrelated. Although this may be the case for entirely proper reasons, it does raise questions as to the appropriateness of such indicators of performance, particularly over the long term.

scholarly journals Facilitating Corporate Entrepreneurship in Public Sector Higher Education Institutions: A Conceptual Model

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javed Nayyar Malik ◽  
Rosli Bin Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
State Government ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Impact

This paper develops a conceptual model of public sector corporate entrepreneurship for the state government higher education institutions. The proposed model is intended to depict the main antecedents that relate to corporate entrepreneurship within the public sector higher education institution  and the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on public sector HEI’s performance, as well as factors influencing its continuous performance.

Analysing a 'neoliberal moment' in English higher education today

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce E. Canaan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Today ◽  
New Criterion ◽  
Do So ◽  
As If

English higher education, like other parts of the public sector and higher education in other countries, is currently undergoing considerable change as it is being restructured as if it were a market in which universities, departments and academics compete against one another. This restructuring is producing new processes of subjectivity that discipline those who work and study in higher education institutions. Feminist poststructuralists have suggested that this restructuring is enabled partly through new forms of accountability that seemingly offer the 'carrot' of self-realisation alongside the 'stick' of greater management surveillance of the burgeoning number of tasks that academics, amongst others, must perform. This paper, located in the context of these changes, builds on Judith Butler's insight that processes of subjection to the dominant order through which the self is produced entail both mastery and subjection. That is, submission requires mastery of the underlying assumptions of the dominant order, which concomitantly introduces possibly subversive responses to subjection. This paper explores a 'neoliberal moment' I recently experienced when I had to fill out a form introduced for modules that failed to reach newly introduced marking 'benchmark' criteria. As I suggest, the process of being subjected to the disciplining that this new criterion demanded, brought me the mastery necessary to avoid such disciplining in future. However, individual subversion did not significantly challenge these forms of accountability; only a collective 'scholarship with commitment' could do so.

Risks in Implementing EU-Funded Projects in Romanian Public Higher Education System

2016 ◽  
pp. 413-441
Author(s):  
Paul Rinderu ◽  
Catalin I. Voiculescu ◽  
Demetra Lupu Visanescu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Systemic Risks

The current study, after shortly introducing the manner in which the National Strategic Reference Framework has being conceived for meeting the EU Regional and Cohesion objectives, presents in a concise manner the architecture of the Operational Programmes in Romania for the financing exercises 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. The first financing exercise has been critically analysed and a list of systemic risks is presented, in connection to the lessons learned for the new financing exercise. Further on, the paper presents the main directions under which the public higher education institutions accessed EU funds via various projects and identifies the main institutional risks for their implementation. The authors consider defining risk institutional profiles for a significant lot of public universities by introducing “soft” and “hard” sets of indicators. After assessing these profiles, recommendations for adapting the organizational structure will be depicted in order to help a softer implementation of the accessed projects.

Comparison of Internationalization Degree of Public Higher Education Institutions in Portugal and Spain

2015 ◽  
pp. 221-246
Author(s):  
Marina Amorim de Sousa ◽  
Tomás Bañegil Palacios ◽  
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Spanish Public Universities ◽  
Official Data

The study object of the research described in this chapter is the internationalization of the public university both in Portugal and Spain. In this research, these countries' university is modeled as an open system in which the institutional and national levels are highlighted. The regional and global levels are indirectly considered by the influence they have on the national and institutional levels. A two-fold analysis was conducted: first, a preliminary qualitative one about the present situation of both Spanish and Portuguese public universities internationalization, based on the available official data sources; second, the quantitative analysis of the results got in the responded questionnaires. This study may contribute to understanding of the nature of Portuguese and Spanish public universities' internationalization process as well as the guidelines that may better contribute to reinforce their internationalization.

scholarly journals A reflection of experiences encountered by labour unions operating at the higher education institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Shadrack Themba Mzangwa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
South African ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
The South ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education

In this article, the author seeks to explore what the unions’ members experience pertaining the recognition and operation of the public sector labour unions at the higher education institutions. A focus on this paper is made mainly on the recognition of the labour unions which operate in two of the South African higher education institutions. The objective of the study was to determine what experiences and challenges do unions’ members (both ordinary and officials of the unions) undergo and observe from their presence in operating at the higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Koncepcja modelu „rachunek kosztów działań w uczelni wyższej”

2015 ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Edyta Piątek ◽  
Ilona Dziedzic-Jagodzka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Public Finances ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Law ◽  
Goals And Objectives

As a result of introducing internal control of the public finances, it is necessary to introduce the elements of management accounting in public entities. In particular, the use of activity based costing enables the realization of goals and objectives in a manner consistent with the law, effective, efficient and on time. Higher education institutions as public sector entities were obliged to introduce activity based costing assumptions and in consequences to identify statutory and partial tasks and activities, media activities and media resources. Despite theoretical preparation, implementation of management accounting raises technical and organizational problems in the universities. Moreover, the data obtained in individual institutions are not comparable.

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