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Parker, Jan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2003
Inveighs against the prevalent commodified discourse in higher education, especially as it affects curriculum planning, quality assurance, and learner typologies, suggesting that educational research, in offering models drawn, but now divorced, from practice may contribute to this negative impact. Critiques a polarized model distinguishing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Quality Control
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McDonald, Ria; van der Horst, Helen – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2007
The democratization of South Africa has necessitated a transformation of the education system. The current transformational landscape of higher education in South Africa requires that basic curriculum concepts, and principles be rediscovered and, rethought with a view to ensuring that future educational practice is based on sound, and proven…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Needs
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Hughes, Julia Christensen – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
It has been suggested that growing interest in curriculum assessment and development in higher education is the result of a number of external and internal factors. External factors include increasing government interest in quality assurance, accessibility, and degree completion rates; growing recognition of the important role university graduates…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control
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Raggatt, Peter – Oxford Review of Education, 1988
Examines quality control mechanisms within West German dual system for training young workers: entry qualifications, quality/qualifications of trainers, methods for curriculum renewal, etc. Comments on weaknesses in the dual system and briefly discusses two British initiatives intended to improve the quality of the education and training of young…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Labor Education
Havelock, Ronald; And Others – 1978
Six papers focusing on educational change in occupational education are presented. The first paper, by Ronald Havelock, provides a historical review of innovation research models and discusses how the various models have progressed culminating in the Linkage Model. The next three papers address conceptual issues in innovation research. The paper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Innovation
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Webster, William G. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1990
The key concepts and methodologies of quality assurance programs used in health service delivery systems are reviewed, and it is suggested they could be readily applied to Canadian universities as a powerful administrative and curricular development tool that would define and enhance the quality of students' educational experiences. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Ashworth, Allan; Harvey, Roger – 1994
This book addresses the issues of educational quality from a British perspective considering how educational quality can be evaluated within the higher education system. It is intended for managers of colleges and universities where quality control is exercised and provides scientific techniques which will allow them to maintain and improve their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
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Gartner, William B. – Journal of Management Education, 1993
One college faculty member's experiences in applying Deming management theory to his business courses to improve instruction are discussed. Key issues in the Deming philosophy are outlined, course changes based on them are described, and outcomes are examined. Suggestions are offered for overcoming institutional and ideological barriers. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Curriculum Development
English, Fenwick W.; Steffy, Betty E. – Educational Technology, 1983
Design problems of a school curriculum plan (those which result when elements required to attain quality control are not present or not functionally linked one to the other) and delivery problems (implementation) are discussed in relation to school curriculum management. Problem intervention and improvement are noted. Eleven references are cited.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Testing
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Allen, G. G. – Higher Education, 1982
It is recommended that librarians be involved in college curriculum development. The role of libraries has not been seriously considered for distance study, and there are problems of library service delivery in sparsely populated rural areas. Great effort should be made to extend equivalent services in distance education to preserve educational…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
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Catalanotto, Frank A.; Heft, Marc W. – Journal of Dental Education, 1996
This response of the University of Florida College of Dentistry to the Institute of Medicine's 1995 report concerning the present status and future needs of dental education stresses implications of eroding state funding for higher education. It notes use of the IOM report in the university's reorganization of the predoctoral curriculum as well as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Dental Schools, Educational Change
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Tannock, James D. T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1991
Examines practical applications for the suitability of two different approaches to quality management within engineering education. One utilizes quality systems standards as typified by a specific industrial process that ensures an effective production system. The other applies the notion of total quality management emphasizing a process of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, Engineering Education
Oregon State Economic Development Dept., Salem. – 1993
The Oregon Advanced Technology Consortium (OATC) created the Partnerships for Quality Project (PQP) to improve Oregon's community colleges by developing a total quality curriculum (TQC) based on the beliefs and practices of total quality management (TQM). This report summarizes the recommendations of the PQP and presents a plan of action for the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2002
Given the range of student learning, behavior, and emotional problems experienced each day by teachers and families, meeting the challenge of supplying appropriate support is complex. Efforts to do so may be handicapped by the way in which student support interventions currently are conceived, organized, and implemented. Student supports are…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Intervention, Educational Change, Accountability
Johnson, Steven; Winterton, Jonathan – 1999
A task force was convened to identify the nature, extent, and pattern of skill needs and shortages for managerial occupations in the United Kingdom (UK). The task force began by examining the key challenges facing managers in the UK. The following factors were among those considered: economic policies promoting liberalization and deregulation;…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Business Administration, Business Education, Competency Based Education