Quality in Higher Education

Name: Quality in Higher Education
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one > The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and how increasingly applied in health care and government, receiving so much attention in higher education at this moment? What does this perspective add to the approaches to excellence with which they have long embraced?These are the two primary questions that this book seeks to address. Chapters and contributors include: \""The New Productivity\"" by Peter F. Drucker; \""World War n and the Quality Movement\"" by J. M. Juran; \""The Quality Approach to Higher Education: Context of Concepts for Change\"" by Brent Ruben; \""The Big Questions in Higher Education Today\"" by L. Edwin Coate; \""An American Approach to Quality\"" by Mary