Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Author: Stamelos Georgios
Publisher: Studera Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9385883275
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The significant growth of number of students enrolled in tertiary education institutions in the recent past decades has caused an unprecedented expansion of higher education systems. The rapid and constant social, economic and technological mutations and international competition make the importance of qualitatively well-educated citizenry and labor forces very decisive. Globalization has developed a powerful impact on the development of higher education and imposes new challenges for the organization (standards, financing, regulations). Systems of higher education tend to detach from the national models and adopt a more "global" orientation. The implementation of quality assurance is one of the recent and most decisive transformations of higher education. Different higher education systems are trying to develop assessment tools (internal and external) to improve the quality of teaching, research and extension activities, and these are either based on experiences of selected countries or are extensively country specific. The quality assurance procedures that were often dependent on national directorial traditions have gradually tended to converge and led to a setup of common tools and standards. Countries under a centralized system tend to impose a uniform and general model while decentralized systems give greater freedom to universities to set up their own quality. International rankings of universities also contribute to impose a set of transnational standards and values, which is also being considered as indicative by the stakeholders. The present book tries to look at the quality assurance mechanism, international rankings and its impact in both absolute and comparative fashion in context of 11 countries from different parts of the world.

Quality Management

Quality Management
Author: Donna C. S. Summers
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789702608134
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Designed to enable readers to recognize the cornerstones of creating and sustaining organizational effectiveness, the First Edition is based on key quality initiatives including Six Sigma, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, ISO 9000, lean manufacturing, and value creation. This book explores how quality management has progressed from an emphasis on the management of quality to a focus on the quality of managing, operating, and integrating customer service, marketing, production, delivery, information, and finance areas throughout an organization's value chain. For professionals with a career or interest in business, engineering, engineering technology, and quality management.

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Total Pages: 168
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Nemesis

Nemesis
Author: Jose Rafael Magdalena Benedito
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004-09-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1581122462
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This thesis describes a telemedicine approach to a computer-aided healthcare system. NEMESIS is the Spanish acronym of New Electrocardiographic Medical Station with Information Systems. The application is a comprehensive tool set, structured around a main navigation bar, which leads to every sub-application. Those sub-applications are window based, user-friendly tools, comprising specific health tools for physicians, telemedicine/telematics tools and general-purpose tools. The whole application is built in a highly structured and modular way, which allows adding or excluding modules quickly. Portability is guaranteed and achieved by Java programming language, bringing independent platform software. All modules comply with international standards; namely, medical modules comply with European CEN TC 251 approved standards, since telematic modules observe the ITU standards. The present application release offers a specific medical module (for cardiology), videoconference, electronic mail, remote control, electronic healthcare patient record retrieval and knowledge database access. The prototype application is running at the Cardiology Service of the Hospital Clínico Universitario of Valencia, waiting for physicians to evaluate the usability, utility and functionality of the software. Esta tesis describe una aplicación de telemedicina desarrollada en la Universidad de Valencia. NÉMESIS es el acrónimo de Nueva Estación Médica con Servicios de Información Secundarios. La aplicación, producto de un tesis doctoral, aprovecha la reciente ubicuidad de redes telmática de fácil acceso y bajo coste para ofrecer herramientas de telemedicina. Parte de una barra de herramientas que aglutina y da acceso a los demás módulos de cardiología o telemedicina existentes. La aplicación se ha desarrollado en Java, tanto por su orientación a redes como por su portabilidad, cuidando además de respetar una estricta modularidad para garantizar la versatilidad de la aplicación. Todos los módulos cumplen los estándares existentes, tanto en informática médica (CEN TC 251) como en comunicaciones (ITU). En la presente tesis se han desarrollado los módulos de cardiografía, adquisición, videoconferencia, correo electrónico, control remoto, acceso a bases de datos hospitalarias de pacientes y acceso a bases de datos de conocimiento. Un prototipo de este programa será probado en el Servicio de Cardiología del Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, para recger información de su utilidad, usabilidad y fiabilidad.

Marketing

Marketing
Author: Gary Armstrong
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789702604006
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Written for courses in Principles of Marketing at four-year and two-year colleges, this shorter overview aims to help students master the basic principles and practices of modern marketing in an enjoyable and practical way. Its coverage balances upon three essential pillars - (1) theory and concepts; (2) practices and applications; and (3) pedagogy - cultivating an efficient, effective teaching and learning environment. This sixth edition provides revised content throughout, and reflects the major trends and forces that are impacting marketing in this new, connected millennium. It includes new thinking and expanded coverage on a wide variety of topics, for example: relationship marketing; connecting technologies; the company value chain; value-delivery networks; and global marketing.