Performance in European higher education: A non-parametric production frontier approach

Education Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-205

  Joumady, Othman ^a,b   Ris, Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency analysis (DEA); European comparison; Performance of higher education institutions

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION;

EID: 17944375732     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290500031215     Document Type: Article

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