scholarly journals Improving Education Efficiency by Consolidating Public Schools with Few Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fayez Al Fayez ◽  
Abdullah Alsadhan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
School Transportation ◽  
Education Expenditure ◽  
Public Education Expenditure

The study aimed to review the best international practices for the consolidation of public schools in areas with low population density in order to improve the efficiency of public education expenditure. The study used the descriptive analysis method by analyzing documents from the best international practices on the consolidation of public schools. The study used two tools, namely, analyzing documents and interviews with 20 experts. The study found that the best international practices for consolidating schools with a small number of students are based on a national consolidation manual, diversity in standards of consolidation and its alternatives, raising the awareness of the local community, and provision of safe and comfortable school transportation. Finally, the study provided suggestions for consolidating schools to improve the efficiency of public education expenditure in Saudi Arabia.

scholarly journals Comparing COSTATIS and Generalized Procrustes Analysis with Multi-Way Public Education Expenditure Data

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 1816
Author(s):  
María Concepción Vega-Hernández ◽  
Carmen Patino-Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Procrustes Analysis ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Education Expenditure ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Generalized Procrustes Analysis ◽  
Expenditure Data ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Public Education Expenditure ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Governments serve a variety of purposes, and where governments spend their money has always been of concern to society. In particular, spending on public education is of great interest. However, the volume of this information can be difficult to manage. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to compare the COSTATIS method and generalized Procrustes analysis (GPA) when working with multi-way data. Despite the particular characteristics of each of them, they present similarities and differences that, when analyzed together, can provide complementary results to researchers. The COSTATIS consists of a co-inertia analysis of the compromise of two k-table analyses. The GPA method provides an optimal superimposed representation of individual configurations, and a common consensus configuration is constructed as the mean of all transformed configurations. In addition, the GPA method includes the translation, rotation and scaling of coordinates. In this study, both methods were applied, and the advantages and disadvantages of each are presented. The treated data are a sequence of tables from various countries where different public expenditures on education have been measured over time.

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