Η τεχνική αποδοτικότητα των ΓΕΛ της Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Φθιώτιδας

Abstract

The economic crisis that has been observed in recent years in our country and the economic science of "resource scarcity" make it a priority, in the financing of the public sector, to save resources, without compromising the quality of the services provided. The existence of criteria that provide an assessment of how resources are used by educational units/services of the same activity would be useful to policy-makers. Technical efficiency is a numerical characterization of resource efficiency or non-utilization by a production unit. This study measures the technical efficiency of the 23 high school Secondary Education Schools of the Regional Unity of Fthiotida concerning the school year 2014-15. It uses the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, input oriented, with three-input and four outflow-based. The results and values of technical efficiency that have been found make it possible to classify high schools (lyceums) and reveal that a significant proportion of them (34.8%) are efficient. Besides, the size of the high school (lyceum) that minimizes the average annual public cost per pupil is calculated referring to the total of high schools (lyceums) in Fthiotida and in accordance with this finding, a specific merger proposal, with an efficiency evaluation carried out in advance, has been made.