INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE : MECHANISM OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

TOTAL TEACHERS ‘ QUALITY ASSURANCE By Abdul

Educationists, policymakers, and parents hold that good teachers produce good students. Most of education practitioners and experts believe that the victory is in the classroom. The highest standards, the strongest accountability measures, the latest technology, and the most beautiful facilities will do little good without talented, dedicated, and well-prepared teachers. However, because the ch...

Private Sector Systems for Providing Quality Assurance: From “Good Practices” to HACCP to Total Quality Management

In recent years, there has been a marked evolution in private sector approaches to managing product quality. The food industry has been moving away from the traditional, largely reactive approach, focusing on end-product testing and “fire-fighting” to deal with quality problems, to a total quality approach emphasizing prevention and involvement of all personnel in providing customer satisfactio...

Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Integration of strategic management and quality assurance

The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of quality assurance and strategic management in higher education. The study presents the concept of the quality map, which is a graphical representation of the quality assurance system. The quality map explicitly takes into account the environment, strategic planning and the internal processes of the organisation. The quality map help...

Total Quality Management