...Abdel-Rahman Al-Qawasmi Purpose This study aims to present the quality academic management system ( QAMS ), a Web-based academic quality management system designed to strengthen evidence traceability, outcome-based assessment, stakeholder feedback, reporting and continuous improvement...

... that focus on continuous improvement, peer review, accountability and stakeholder (students, alumni and industry professionals) engagement, ensuring that academic standards are maintained. This approach aligns with constructivist educational theory, where learning and assessment are collaborative processes...

..., illuminating key principles and reflecting relevant practices. The lessons learned in this process show the importance of balancing accountability and continuous improvement while promoting a more receptive organizational culture, aligning the national and international standards in the early design stage...

...Fernando Gonzalez Aleu; Edgar Marco Aurelio Granda Gutierrez; Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes; Juan Baldemar Garza Villegas; Jesus Vazquez Hernandez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a continuous improvement project (CIP) at a Mexican university designed to increase engineering graduate...

... will demand that higher education institutions become flexible, flat, and fast organizations. Consideration should be given to adopting the philosophy of Kaizen, continuous improvement of products, processes, and people (Zimmerman, 1991 , p. 10). Gains from Kaizen included maintaining a balanced...

... Quality management Higher education Continuous improvement Ireland Organizational structures Quality management systems are increasingly common in many organisations (Psychogios and Priporas, 2007 ; Brookes and Becket, 2008). In order to enhance competitiveness and effectiveness...

.... And, in turn, by assessing the current state, there are opportunities to provoke continuous improvement, but the Baldrige Criteria offers no mechanism to do so. To build on the foundation of the Baldrige Criteria, a system that encourages improvement deployment, a step beyond program assessment to TQM...

... can be contacted at: s.brown@leedsmet.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Change management Quality improvement Higher education Teaching methods Attitudes Continuous improvement Students Organizational structures Morale United Kingdom The second decade...

... root causes of the problem(s) and propose a solution to management (Liker, 2004). Although different types of kaizen or continuous improvement teams, often known as Employee Involvement teams (Magjuka and Baldwin, 1991) and Quality Circles (Lawler and Mohrman, 1985) have been used in US...

... or questions, collects and analyzes appropriate data in order to answer the question/s, interprets the results in light of needed changes to be made, and makes changes to improve teaching and learning. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Schools Teachers Research work Continuous improvement...

... and the capabilities of personnel in terms of quality assurance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Quality assurance Higher education Benchmarking Continuous improvement Degrees Finland The European ministers responsible for higher education agreed in the Bologna Process...

... factors into five major constructs with 25 factors. The five constructs are: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Teaching Quality Customer satisfaction Continuous improvement Although Kano's model uses satisfaction and sufficiency to classify the quality characteristics...

.... Continuous improvement in traditional classroom‐style business school education is of increasing importance given the many recent calls to improve graduate business school education (Zimmerman, 1991 ; Karapetrovic et al., 1999 ; AACSB, 2002 ; Donaldson, 2002 ; Etzioni, 2002 ; Mintzberg et...

...Cecilia Temponi Purpose To analyze the main elements of continuous improvement (CI) in higher education and the concerns of academia's stakeholders in the implementation of such an approach. Suggests guidelines for the development of a culture more receptive to the implementation and maintenance...

... with a number of well‐known approaches to “quality” and “continuous improvement”. Discusses how the new agency might learn from these and embrace more robust methods post the year 2000. © MCB UP Limited 1997 This is a rather woolly defence of academic autonomy and institutional diversity against...

... take effect, so that evaluation has to be planned and actively practised from the start. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Continuous improvement Curriculum Innovation Management The higher education sector throughout the world is beset by increasing pressure on shrinking resources (World...