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Dyment, Robert G. – College Management, 1972
Systems analysts help the University of Buffalo prepare to move and store tons of goods and transport 40,000 students daily. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Facility Planning, Higher Education, Management Systems
Download full textCavanaugh, Alfred D. – 1969
There have been four objectives to this preliminary study on cost analysis procedures in higher education: to examine and evaluate materials on cost analysis recently gathered; to explain the basic techniques of cost studies and the uses to which they are put; to identify, if possible, the specific value of cost analysis as an administrative tool;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration
Sugg, B. Alan; Gray, Jack – College and University Journal, 1973
Systems analysis principles can be used to attain feedback'' from higher education institutions. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Administration, Feedback, Higher Education
STOLLER, DAVID S. – 1966
PROCEEDINGS FROM A 1966 CONFERENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE USE OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN EDUCATION ARE REPORTED. PARTICIPANTS FROM EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES CONSIDERED THE APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS TO EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. THEY AGREED--(1) THAT THE TECHNIQUES HAVE…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Economics, Educational Administration, Educational Problems
Platts, C. V.; Wyant, T. G. – Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Knezevich, Stephen J., Ed. – 1969
In this era of rapid social change, educational administrators have discovered that new approaches to problem solving and decision making are needed. Systems analysis could afford a promising approach to administrative problems by providing a number of systematic techniques designed to sharpen administrative decision making, enhance efficiency,…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Principles, Budgeting, Critical Path Method
National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit. – 1977
The transition from an elite university to a mass university has characterized modern university life. The purely quantitative development has been accompanied by a number of changes in the decisionmaking system in higher education. No systematic comparative studies exist of the development of the decisionmaking system. A project is under way at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Nowrasteh, Daryush M. – 1971
This publication is designed to serve state-level planners interested in reviewing the key concepts of state planning and management systems. The compact nature of the review and its organization in guideline format should provide a ready reference for the practitioner seeking to develop and improve management systems for vocational education in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Critical Path Method, Educational Administration, Guides
Bruno, James E.; Fox, James N. – 1973
The demand for administrators and specialists trained in quantitative concepts and skills has increased across the last decade mainly as a result of the accountability movement. Quantitative methods can greatly assist the school administrator in certain decisionmaking processes, although it is essential that he be able to distinguish between those…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
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Recent policy developments are changing the work of local education authorities (LEAs) in Wales requiring them to play a broader role in the community and a significant role in raising educational achievement. LEAs are obligated to set out their improvement targets in institutional plans and are called to account by external inspection, which…
Descriptors: School Districts, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Operations Research
Chuang, Ying C. – 1974
The methods of operations research (OR) can make many contributions to the solution of the complex problems which beset urban education. OR techniques such as PERT are useful aids to planning school construction, budgets, and research projects. System planning models can be used to represent urban educational systems and to predict the effects of…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Critical Path Method
Cresswell, Anthony; And Others – 1980
The intent of this document is to describe approximately 30 management science and organizational behavioral techniques with practical applications in school business management. Each technique is described by the mechanics of using the technique, specific applications of the technique, and requirements and constraints in the use of the technique.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Guides, Cost Effectiveness, Critical Path Method
