The philosophy of quality assurance (QA) and total quality management is derived from industrial and commercial practice. We propose the adoption of international standards ISO 9000 (used in industry and commerce) to higher educational institutions to assure and improve the quality, efficiency, and delivery of their programmes and services. This paper examines the scope and structure of a QA sy...

Principles of quality management have been successful in the business realm, producing quality products and services through a structured and comprehensive delivery system. Standardization reduces the variance of each task and improves overall effectiveness. Performance and attention to the bottom line are the measurement of success. Principles of quality management have been applied to student...

In the context of current debate regarding Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme and the decision to discontinue the programme in the district of Hoshangabad and elsewhere, the Government of Madhya Pradesh has expressed a desire to improve Science Teaching in all the schools of Madhya Pradesh. It has asked Eklavya to submit a proposal to mainstream the learnings from the HSTP. This concept pap...

We consider a game in which schools compete to place graduates in two distinct ways: by investing in the quality of education, and by strategically designing grading policies. In equilibrium, schools issue grades that do not perfectly reveal graduate abilities. This leads evaluators to have less-accurate information when hiring or admitting graduates. However, compared to fully-revealing gradin...

conclusions the present study showed the beneficial effects of nutritional training on fatigue and adl in patients with ms. therefore, nurses and dietitians should regularly assess the patients’ dietary pattern and train them and their families about appropriate diet. methods this quasi-experimental one group, pretest and posttest study was performed on 40 patients with ms, who were convenientl...

background: clinical education with patient-focused learning is very important in medical education. therefore, it is very essential to select an appropriate education method. the current study was conducted to analyze the impact of simultaneous presentation of medical stager and inter in seminars provided with a pre-organizer strategy and from the students' perspective (2012-2013).  metho...

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...

Medical education institutions usually adapt industrial quality management models that measure the quality of the process of a program but not the quality of the product. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of industrial quality management models on medical education and students, and to highlight the importance of introducing a proper educational quality management model. Indust...

The emergence of the Internet has changed the way we teach and learn . This paper provides a general overview of the state of the quality of virtual education environments . First of all, some problems with the quality criteria applied in this field and the need to develop quality seals are presented . Likewise, the dimensions and subdimensions of an empirical instrument to improve and assess t...

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