Performance and Efficiency Analysis of Public Polytechnic Institutions in the Academic Year of Transition to Technical Universities in Ghana
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Date
2024
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Elsevier
Abstract
Purpose: The paper investigates the production and efficiency of 10 public polytechnic
institutions multi-production in their transition to public technical universities in the 2015-2016
academic year in Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach – Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a linear programming
model, is applied to study the relative multi-production efficiency of the polytechnic
institutions.
Findings – The paper established that 50% of the public polytechnic institutions must continue
to expand the enrolment of students into their programmes once they have transitioned into
technical universities, since they enjoy economies of scale in their multi-productions and there
are potential gains through efficiency.
Research limitations – The research findings are stated with caution, given the small
average size of public polytechnics in terms of Full-Time Equivalence student numbers.
Practical implication – Matching inputs and outputs data for polytechnic institutions as higher
education institutions (HEIs) to evaluate their efficiency and to encourage benchmarking as a
means of improving performance in the academic year transiting them into public technical
universities and beyond in Ghana, is thus welcome and unique and responds appropriately to
the AU Agenda 2063 calls for evaluating the efficiency of higher education institutions on the
continent.
Social implication- The paper addressed a significant gap in the current public higher
education literature in Ghana.
Originality – To the author's knowledge, this is the first study using original data allowing
analysis of multi-product efficiency in the 10 public polytechnic institutions in Ghana before
their transition to public technical universities.
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Public polytechnics, data envelopment analysis, performance, efficiency, returns to scale.
Citation
Addai, I. (2024). Performance and Efficiency Analysis of Public Polytechnic Institutions in the Academic Year of Transition to Technical Universities in Ghana. Available at SSRN 4690680.