A methodology proposal to evaluate the governance achievement in the public university management of Ecuador

Abstract

The public universities in Ecuador have different alternatives to manage their goals accomplishment. The majority of them resort to an Annual Operate Plan, because of the budget control from the government. In fact, this administrative tool is useful; it controls not only the money resources but also goals achievement. Nonetheless, these evaluation criteria need a complement to generate added value, for all the stakeholders.

Although several theoretical models exist. They have not been tested in the Ecuadorian context. Therefore, this article describes a specific proposal methodology for two public universities in Ecuador. It considers dissimilar authors contributions for this field. Beginning with Đỗ Thị Ngọc Quyên (2014), who defined five dimensions to evaluate the governance in public universities. Whereas Evaristo Martín Fernandez (2010) specified a methodology to evaluate the management of intelligent educational institutions. While Jose Joaquin Brunner (2010) identified four quadrants for governance in the Latin American context, the third quadrant considers a stakeholder participation. Finally, United Nations stablished the principles for good governance, which need to be present in the proposed methodology. As a result, it is a mixed model to evaluate governance in the public university management, its validity and applicability has the support of the Delphi method