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Mahesh Singh; Jaiprakash Paliwal; Manoj Kumar Rao; Shirish Raibagkar – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: In India, national accreditation agencies stipulate that internal quality control in higher education institutions (HEIs) is to be institutionalized through internal quality assurance cells that are responsible for implementing and controlling quality systems. As the concept of goal congruence is central to a control process, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Bigirwa, June Patrick; Ndawula, Stephen; Naluwemba, Esther Frances – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
E-learning pedagogy is used in many health training institutions in Uganda, However, despite the high investment, e-learning adoption is still low. This study aimed at ascertaining the relevance of on-line quality management in improve e-learning adoption in midwifery schools in Uganda. It used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to…
Descriptors: Obstetrics, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2017
This report presents a summary of the findings of fiscal year (FY) 2017 Head Start monitoring reviews, fulfilling the reporting requirement in Section 641A(f) of the Head Start Act. It highlights the enhancements made to the FY 2017 monitoring review system, summarizes grantee review outcomes, and describes the types of findings most commonly…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Federal Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Faurer, Judson C. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
Are prospective employers getting "quality" educated, degreed applicants and are academic institutions that offer online degree programs ensuring the quality control of the courses/programs offered? The issue specifically addressed in this paper is not with all institutions offering degrees through online programs or even with all online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Validity, Grades (Scholastic), Quality Control
Mafa, Onias; Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
An examination is an important component of any institution that educates people. It is a form of assessment used to measure the students' understanding of the concepts and principles they would have learnt. Zimbabwe Open University, an Open and Distance Learning institution has been setting its own examinations for the academic programmes…
Descriptors: Identification, Open Universities, Quality Control, Item Banks
Teelken, Christine; Lomas, Laurie – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This paper focuses on the way lecturers observe, feel restrained by and cope with quality management systems that have been implemented in the higher education systems of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. As two sides of the same coin, quality enhancement and quality control are of increased significance in European Higher Education…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Control, Management Systems, College Administration
Carroll, Martin; Razvi, Salim; Goodliffe, Tess; Al-Habsi, Fakhriya – Quality in Higher Education, 2009
The post-secondary education sector in Oman consists of a complex suite of public and private institutions, in a number of distinct segments, offering local and foreign programmes developed through their respective quality assurance systems. The Omani higher education quality management system is undergoing significant advances to address this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Briukhanov, V. M.; Kiselev, V. I.; Timchenko, N. S.; Vdovin, V. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The intensive process observed in the past few years, in which higher professional education is coming to be included in the system of market relations, is setting new target guidelines of the activity of institutions of higher learning, as well as the management models of educational institutions. The marketing component is becoming more and more…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Opinions, Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Houston, Don – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically review dominant conceptions of and approaches to quality in higher education. It suggests an alternative approach with potential to shift the focus of quality activities from accountability and control to improvement. Design/methodology/approach: The applicability and limits of quality concepts…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Faurer, Judson C. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2009
Are prospective employers getting "quality" educated degreed applicants and are academic institutions that offer online degree programs ensuring the quality control of the courses/programs offered? The issue specifically addressed in this paper is not with all institutions offering degrees through online programs or even with all online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Validity, Grades (Scholastic), Quality Control
Belawati, Tian; Zuhairi, Amin – Online Submission, 2007
Quality assurance for distance higher education is one of the main concerns among institutions and stakeholders today. This paper examines the experiences of Universitas Terbuka (UT), which has initiated and implemented an innovative strategy of quality assurance (QA) for continuous improvement. The credo of the UT quality assurance system is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Management Systems, Educational Quality
Raban, Colin; Turner, Liz – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2006
Although the world is changing, quality management remains an area of relative calm. Many institutions continue to use elaborated versions of a model that is developed by the Council of Academic Awards and conceived at a time when higher education was not so exposed to market forces, when the policy and regulatory environment was relatively…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Educational Administration, Educational Quality, Management Systems
Sencila, Viktoras; Skipariene, Ingrida – Quality of Higher Education, 2007
The European education standards assurance and pursuit of quality in education have been announced as strategic aims of the Lithuanian education system in the light of new challenges the society is facing and opportunities offered by democracy, development of market economy and globalization. One of the ways to achieve the aims mentioned above is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Free Enterprise System, Democracy
Fresen, Jill – International Journal on E-Learning, 2007
This article reports on a case study of the e-learning production unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Phase 1 of the study, completed in 2003, was the design and development of a process-based quality management system for web-supported learning (WSL) using a basic ISO 9000 approach (University of Pretoria, 2003). The second phase,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Management Systems

Harvey, Lee – Quality in Higher Education, 1995
Various total quality management (TQM) approaches are explored and some core elements specified. Generic problems of TQM and those relating to higher education are analyzed. It is argued that while there are some aspects of TQM that are applicable in the collegiate setting, the specific approach is inapplicable in higher education. A new…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Management Systems