... to uphold academic integrity (Van Ameijde et al., 2009). They have mechanisms 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...

..., 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...

..., there has been no systematic review or integration of the published literature about Lean in higher education. This review provides a highly useful starting point for researchers interested in further developing theory about quality in academic institutions. Continuous improvement Leadership Quality...

... the literature findings in each theme. Kim O'Mahony can be contacted at: kim.omahony@ul.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Quality management Higher education Continuous improvement Ireland Organizational structures Quality management systems are increasingly common...

...@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 Although changes may seem to come upon us without warning...

... paradigms of concern as selected by higher education personnel interested in lean training: P1. Allocating scarce resources. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Leadership Continuous improvement Higher education Total quality management Baldrige Award United States of America...

... 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 industry with mixed success since the late 1970s, Toyota has...

... Teachers Research work Continuous improvement Quality improvement Teacher research (inquiry) has been characterized as practice improvement, professional development and action research among numerous names and descriptions. This paper will support the case that teacher research is also a form...

... activities in order to achieve higher quality. Quality assurance Higher education Benchmarking Continuous improvement Degrees Finland The European ministers responsible for higher education agreed in the Bologna Process that the primary responsibility for quality assurance in higher...

... Teaching Quality Customer satisfaction Continuous improvement Like managers operating enterprises, school administrators are increasingly attaching great importance to the overall performance of management. Both the administrative system and instructors no longer regard students as learners...

...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...

... at Hartford, 2004b): © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Business schools Continuous improvement Competitive marketplaces require people at all levels in an organization to think of ways to continuously improve the products or services that they deliver to customers. Organizations...

... 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. This is a rather woolly defence of academic autonomy and institutional diversity against the imposition of equally woolly...

... the application of the language. Finally, familiarity with the rules for the display of subtitle and synchronization with the video signal form a technical boundary to the language transfer method (Roffe, 1995). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Continuous improvement Curriculum Innovation Management...