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 evolution of technology has influenced and, in some cases pushed, many change projects in any type of industry. Educational institutions have also been influenced by this technological evolution. This has generated some important shifts in the educational paradigm that have consequently lead to some changes in the learning processes. Although elearning represents one of the most important c...

Educational partnership becomes a common practice in higher education. This study clarifies the practices of educational partnership in higher education institutions. A model of educational partnership has been built to identify its successful factors. The five determinants to the partnership’s success are the following: commitment to partnerships, curriculum and learning, quality and risk mana...

There is a consensus that the quality of the US education system is deteriorating. This deterioration is evidenced by declining test scores, graduates with inadequate basic skills, increasing dropout rates, and a widening gap between industry needs and student capabilities (Fisher, 1993; Schargel, 1993). Society, on the other hand, has responded to this decline by demanding higher test scores a...

Explain the "color of wealth" in the United States and its relationship to education. Describe how the racialized economic wealth divide is structured into the fabric of U.S. institutions, including educational ones. Describe the societal practices that flow from U.S. institutions, especially educational ones, that systemically reproduce inequities and inequalities at the intersection of race a...

The author in the first part would like to share his experiences of a European Union sponsored LEONARDO da VINCI project – Land Information Management for Executives (LIME) co-ordinated by the College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary (GEO). The LIME outcomes were a knowledge resource centre and an Internet-supported distributed education service for the Hungarian Land Administratio...

In today’s knowledge economy the importance of education has been worldwide recognized. All developed countries are spending a major part of their budget on education. Within education system of any country, teachers have vital position, as the success of educational institutions is mostly dependent on teachers, who educate the most valued assets of country, i.e. students; therefore the teacher...