Jill Johnes
Role: Acting Dean of The Business School
Jill Johnes has published widely on education economics in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics of Education Review, Higher Education Quarterly, Higher Education and Studies in Higher Education. She is co-author of Performance Indicators in Higher Education (1990) and co-editor of the International Handbook of the Economics of Education (2004), a new edition of which will be published in 2017.
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Efficient universities: are mergers really the answer?
As demand from students grows and competition between institutions increases, some have predicted that universities will respond by seeking to achieve economies of scale. Jill Johnes looks at the evidence that higher education mergers can help universities use resources more efficiently.
