Within the performed survey, the authors analyze the benchmarking definitive elements, identify the main categories of the approach referring to benchmarking, and underline the positive aspects and the critics in connection with it. All the said aspects are analyzed in order to set forth a basis...

The need to reduce public spending in the developing process and fundingof public services has led to the introduction of performance indicators in the publicinstitutions. Moreover, the need to optimize the educational activity, the implementationof an efficient management, insuring the quality...

In the comparative study the authors analyze the relationship between the amount of public funds used for financing higher education, the financing mechanisms and the performance obtained by these, within the European Union member states. The performance criteria used for the optimization of the...