Institutions and facility mergers in the Italian education system: Models and case studies

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• 作者：Giuseppe Bruno^a ; ^{giuseppe.bruno@unina.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Emilio Esposito^a ; ^{emilio.esposito@unina.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Andrea Genovese^b ; ^{a.genovese@shef.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Carmela Piccolo^a ; ^{carmela.piccolo@unina.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae
• 关键词：Location problems ; Education ; Facility merging
• 刊名：Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：53
• 期：Complete
• 页码：23-32
• 全文大小：1857 K

文摘

In recent years, across Europe, the economic crisis has resulted in an increased pressure on education systems. Notably, Italy has been one of the countries that has experienced the most severe reduction in public expenditure in the education sector. In the described conditions, Italian governmental institutions have started to perform rationalisation actions, aimed at modifying the current configuration of the existing facilities offering educational services (either by entirely closing and merging some of them, or by downsizing or transferring capacities), in order to increase the affordability of the system while still providing a required minimum service level. These strategic choices may have a lasting impact; therefore, there is a need for appropriate decision support tools capable of assisting planners. For this reason, after a description of the context and a review of the current literature, this paper presents two novel mathematical models for addressing rationalisation decisions in the Italian education system. The usability of such models is tested by means of real-world case studies, offering interesting insights.