Quality Management in Technical Education

Abstract

Education is an important aspect for the development of economy and to be self sustained. It predicts the growth and living standard. Quality education is an absolute necessity at every level of society. The main stakeholders of any Technical Education System (TES) are faculty, students, management and the infrastructure, which are responsible for efficient functioning of a TES. There is an utmost need to provide good quality technical education. In order to achieve it there is a need to develop certain procedures which would help in assessing the standard and quality of technical education so that its quality can be improved and monitored from time to time. In this work research on various aspects of technical education has been done by using different techniques. The basis of the research is provided by the literature review done. In education, quality means good academic culture, excellent academic results, progressive and adaptive management, clean administration and prominent profile of outgoing students. It involves the expectations and perceptions of students, faculty, supporting staff, administrators, parents of the students, government, industry (recruiters) and society etc. They interact with the system in different ways and their objectives may be different. So the implementation of a quality improvement program necessitates the identification of various factors in an educational set-up and determination of their criticality. Sometimes the stakeholders are classified into three groups: input, transformation and output. Students and parents are included in input stakeholders, the faculty is the transformation stakeholders and the corporations and society are the output stakeholders. The main objective of a TES is the development of methodologies for improving the quality of education and establishment of a new system of its own.