Quality assurance in higher education: The Philippines and Oman experience

• Authors: Abdullah Saif Al Tobi , Solane Duque
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Quality Assurance (QA) is generally defined as part of the overall management function that determines and implements the quality policy (intentions and directions of the organization). This paper discusses the different definitions of quality, quality terminologies, accreditation, and comparison between the different approaches to quality assurance as applied in the Sultanate of Oman and in the Philippines according to their specific purposes.

Keywords

EN

Quality assurance; accreditation; higher education

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-48

Dates

published

2015-04-15

Contributors

author

Abdullah Saif Al Tobi

• College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman

author

Solane Duque

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2015.03