QM and excellence

The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL)

An EC-funded network - led by Serge Ravet and the EIFEL project - to promote good practices within the European eLearning community

AACSB report: "The Business School Rankings Dilemma"

Because rankings can be a 2-edged sword this 18pp report recommends, inter alia, a shift from rankings to 'quality ratings'

Characteristics of excellence in teaching and learning

Higher education is changing, and many institutions are in a state of important transition. The views of the US Middle States Commission on Higher Education in 2002 are expressed in “Characteristics of Excellence: eligibility requirements and standards for accreditation” at this URL

A US view of Excellence in T&L

US higher education is changing and many institutions are in a state of important transition. The views of the US Middle States Commission on Higher Education in 2002 are expressed in “Characteristics of Excellence: eligibility requirements and standards for accreditation” - at this URL

Excellence: a light-hearted view

A student perspective on excellence in T&L is revealed in "5 Ways to Tell if You Go to a Third-Rate University" - a light-hearted piece that carries some messages worth noting.

How Business Schools lost their way

Two eminent professors from University of Southern California argue that business schools are so focused on ‘scientific’ research that they are doing their students a grave disservice by hiring teachers with limited business experience.

EQUIS quality criteria

Guidance notes on EQUIS quality criteria

Centre for Integral Excellence

This centre (at the link below) is based at Sheffield Hallam and sets out to disseminate work by the Consortium for Excellence in Higher Education (May00-Dec04) whose work has focused on the use of the EFQM Business Excellence model in HE. [see http://excellence.shu.ac.uk/default.asp]

EFQM Excellence in HE: an alternative view

A recent study by Paul Temple argues that the EFQM Excellence Model may not be suitable for application in the field of Higher Education. See Temple, P. (2005) "The EFQM Excellence Model: Higher Education's Latest Management Fad?", Higher Education Quarterly Volume 59, No 4 pp 261-274

A holistic model for quality in higher education

A series of contributions from 'Sri' Srikanthan and John Dalrymple at focuses on blending TQM and Learning Communities experiences to create a a Holistic Model for Quality in Higher Education which 'can serve as the ideal to address the service, education and implementation aspects synergistically.'

Zen and the art of quality

'A philosopher’s perspective of the auditing procedures in UK Higher Education', by Dr Anthony M. McWatt. 'In this paper, I argue that this is not only short-sighted policy but also a matter of concern with how notions of ‘Quality’ have been recently employed to justify this by government ministers and their representatives for the education sector. I will therefore be re-addressing the balance to a small extent by providing a philosophical critique that employs a modern metaphysics of Quality.'

HE Academy Perspectives on Quality Enhancement

This page on the HE Academy website offers 6 articles about QME, commissioned by HEA since 2001

Transnational quality in HE

Connelly, S., Garton, J. & Olsen, A. (2006) Models and Types: Guidelines for Good Practice in Transnational Education. Observatory on Borderless Higher Education; published online for subscribers,1 September, at http://www.obhe.ac.uk/products/reports/

Ready for excellence?

1 October 2005: First QuBE surveys suggest wide variation in approaches to and effectiveness of Quality Management & Enhancement (QME) among business schools. Our consortium research team has investigated perceptions about the quality of teaching and learning among academic staff, students, senior managers of business schools and national bodies concerned with business education.