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Developing Elements of a Tool for a Quantitative Assessment of University Administration Decisions on the Expediency of Optimizing the Structure of the University Department Faculties

Student: Degtiareva Elena

Supervisor: Alexander Belenky

Faculty: Institute of Education

Educational Programme: Management in Higher Education (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

For the first time in the sphere of education in Russia, the dissertation addresses one of the problems associated with choosing the structure of the faculty at a University which the University administration assigns to run a set of courses in English and proposes an approach to solving this problem. This approach is based on the mathematical modeling of the decision-making process of how to organize teaching these courses at the University that the University administration gets involved in. The administration proceeds from a desirable quality of learning for each of the courses by the students and its available financial resources, and the use of video recordings of lectures of professors from leading universities in the world (in English) is considered to be used to attain this goal. The mathematical model that is proposed in the dissertation is used to formulate two optimization problems. In the first problem, an optimal use of the available financial resources is searched in an attempt to secure the expected number of students to succeed in studying each course that constitutes a certain percentage of all the number of students studying this course (if this is possible). In the second problem, the minimal budget that secures the attainment of this percentage for each of the courses is searched. Results of solving both problems with model data are presented.

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