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Download full textYusof, Safiah Md; Lim, Tick Meng; Png, Leo; Khatab, Zainuriyah Abd; Singh, Harvinder Kaur Dharam – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
Open University Malaysia (OUM) is progressively moving towards implementing assessment on demand and online assessment. This move is deemed necessary for OUM to continue to be the leading provider of flexible learning. OUM serves a very large number of students each semester and these students are vastly distributed throughout the country. As the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction, Management Systems
Direct linkSchendel, Diana E.; Bresnahan, Michaeline; Carter, Kim W.; Francis, Richard W.; Gissler, Mika; Grønborg, Therese K.; Gross, Raz; Gunnes, Nina; Hornig, Mady; Hultman, Christina M.; Langridge, Amanda; Lauritsen, Marlene B.; Leonard, Helen; Parner, Erik T.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Sandin, Sven; Sourander, Andre; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Suominen, Auli; Surén, Pål; Susser, Ezra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The International Collaboration for Autism Registry Epidemiology (iCARE) is the first multinational research consortium (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Sweden, USA) to promote research in autism geographical and temporal heterogeneity, phenotype, family and life course patterns, and etiology. iCARE devised solutions to challenges in…
Descriptors: Autism, Epidemiology, International Cooperation, Consortia
Carroll, Martin; Razvi, Salim; Goodliffe, Tess; Al-Habsi, Fakhriya – Quality in Higher Education, 2009
The post-secondary education sector in Oman consists of a complex suite of public and private institutions, in a number of distinct segments, offering local and foreign programmes developed through their respective quality assurance systems. The Omani higher education quality management system is undergoing significant advances to address this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Briukhanov, V. M.; Kiselev, V. I.; Timchenko, N. S.; Vdovin, V. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The intensive process observed in the past few years, in which higher professional education is coming to be included in the system of market relations, is setting new target guidelines of the activity of institutions of higher learning, as well as the management models of educational institutions. The marketing component is becoming more and more…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Opinions, Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Fasano, Carla; And Others – Journal of Tertiary Education Administration, 1995
An experimental program at the University of Woollongong (Australia) identified a quality management framework, developed indicators of institutional performance, created a database for user-defined information needs, and provided access to information at all institutional levels. The project explored use of performance indicators and demonstrated…
Descriptors: College Administration, Databases, Decision Making, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWasson, Dale – College and University, 1993
The Georgia Southern University admissions office implemented Total Quality Management (TQM) principles to control the quality of information management. It is suggested that, although TQM is used best on an institutionwide basis, it can also be useful in improving quality, reducing cost, increasing productivity, and achieving competitiveness on a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Admission, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHarvey, Lee – Quality in Higher Education, 1995
Various total quality management (TQM) approaches are explored and some core elements specified. Generic problems of TQM and those relating to higher education are analyzed. It is argued that while there are some aspects of TQM that are applicable in the collegiate setting, the specific approach is inapplicable in higher education. A new…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Management Systems
Raban, Colin; Turner, Liz – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2006
Although the world is changing, quality management remains an area of relative calm. Many institutions continue to use elaborated versions of a model that is developed by the Council of Academic Awards and conceived at a time when higher education was not so exposed to market forces, when the policy and regulatory environment was relatively…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Educational Administration, Educational Quality, Management Systems
Sencila, Viktoras; Skipariene, Ingrida – Quality of Higher Education, 2007
The European education standards assurance and pursuit of quality in education have been announced as strategic aims of the Lithuanian education system in the light of new challenges the society is facing and opportunities offered by democracy, development of market economy and globalization. One of the ways to achieve the aims mentioned above is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Free Enterprise System, Democracy
Lindsay, Alan – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1994
A discussion of Australian higher education looks at the nature of quality and its assessment in higher education, particularly in the context of a new national committee on quality assurance. It examines the compatibility of quality management strategies with existing institutional decision-making and management processes. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries
Paunescu, Carmen; Fok, Wing – Online Submission, 2005
The paper discusses a model of quality management system for higher education. One of the main objectives of this paper is to highlight the challenges facing the school during implementation of the ISO 9001 standard and the benefits of successfully implementing such a quality system can bring to higher education. Based on the experience of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Management Systems, Educational Quality
Reese, Larry D.; Parmenter, Vernon F. – Business Officer, 1994
An effort to enhance quality and efficiency at the University of Florida was designed to produce quick results without involving many employees and focused on the accounts payable department. Flowcharting identified inefficiencies and pinpointed opportunities for improvement in labor-intensive processes, mailings, check registers, reports,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Data Processing, Efficiency
Peer reviewedPinto, Maria; Galvez, Carmen – Journal of Information Science, 1999
Discussion of abstracting systems focuses on the paradigm concept and identifies and explains four paradigms: communicational, or information theory; physical, including information retrieval; cognitive, including information processing and artificial intelligence; and systemic, including quality management. Emphasizes multidimensionality and…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedLajes, Maria Alcina Almeida – Higher Education Management, 1995
A discussion of quality assurance in Portuguese universities looks at the environment of expanding enrollments and new laws concerning program quality. It is proposed that evaluation should be informative, exhaustive, and concise, and should involve cooperation between evaluators both internal and external to the institution. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMalinoski, Bernadette – CUPA Journal, 1995
The University of Michigan sponsored a 2-day, institution-wide exposition of quality management efforts, which included 64 exhibits staffed by university employees. The underlying principles, planning stages, evidence that the expo was successful, lessons learned, plans for similar future efforts, and ways to obtain further information about this…
Descriptors: College Administration, Exhibits, Higher Education, Management Systems
