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Funding Allocation and Staff Management. A Portuguese Example
Author(s) -
ROSA MARIA JOÃO,
AMADO DIANA,
AMARAL ALBERTO
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2008.01375.x
Subject(s) - portuguese , christian ministry , equity (law) , convergence (economics) , higher education , economics , business , public economics , political science , public administration , accounting , economic growth , philosophy , linguistics , law
For many years the Portuguese Ministry of Education used a funding formula to allocate the State budget to public higher education institutions. Some of its major objectives were higher enrolments and allocation equity. As the expenditure on salaries was a major component of the budget, the formula was supposed to force convergence to established standard staff/student ratios. This article analyses the evolution of staff numbers in Portuguese public universities to assess how successful the funding formula has been in forcing convergence to standard staff numbers.

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