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Takenaka, Toru; Mizuta, Kensuke; Sato, Toru – Online Submission, 2022
As in many industrialized countries, Japan carried out a deregulation of higher education around the turn of the 21st century. This reform was based on New Public Management (NPM) principles, which should have been reflected in its most salient step: the incorporation of national universities in 2004. Although the way that the NPM principles were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Administrative Organization, Performance Based Assessment, Financial Support
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Phan, Vinhthuy; Wright, Laura; Decent, Bridgette – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A strategy for allocating merit-based awards and need-based aid is critical to a university. Such a strategy, however, must address multiple, sometimes competing objectives. We introduce an approach that couples a gradient boosting classifier for predicting outcomes from an allocation strategy with a local search optimization algorithm, which…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Lee, Lung-Sheng – Online Submission, 2022
The colleges and universities in Taiwan are confronted with the following two problems: (1) The average youth (aged 15-29) unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate; and (2) Mainly affected by the low birth rate, the admission and vacancy rates of colleges and universities have increased, and fierce competition exists…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Competition, Universities, Employment Opportunities