Foster research on the development, use, evaluation and re-contextualisation of OER as well as on the opportunities and challenges they present, and their impact on the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in order to strengthen the evidence base for public investment in OER.

UNESCO: 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION

Improve both cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning outcomes through greater use of OER.

UNESCO: 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION

My teaching hospital is asking us to make 5% efficiency savings, with the threat that the cuts will be made for us if we don't identify them ourselves, with no discussion with managers as to what this means for clinical priorities.

BBC: Scrubbing Up: Has the NHS got its priorities wrong?

Higher education minister David Lammy said spending on frontline teaching would be protected by savings on building and making efficiency measures.

BBC: Top UK universities warn of damage from budget cuts

By comparing the number of graduates from accredited teacher-training programmes with the total number in the teaching workforce in public primary schools, it is possible to assess the efficiency of education systems to train teachers while attempting to meet the rising demand for teachers.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

However Lleu Williams from NUS Cymru said that things are already stretched, so the efficiency savings which the government has called for will lead to cuts in learning and teaching.

BBC: Finance committee

Improving facilities, teaching quality and research takes money, and while schools theoretically could "aggressively try to increase their efficiency, reduce costs and get better by substitution rather than by growing expenditures, they don't do this, " Ehrenberg says.

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