Internal Quality Issues in Professional Education in the Indian Context – Understanding Student Perspectives
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India is witnessing a proliferation of management and technical institutes.The past few years have seen a tremendous rise in the privately managed professional colleges-engineering as well as management disciplines. While the intention of making professional education accessible to the masses is noble, yet it must not be at the cost of the quality of education. With the industry getting intensely selective about recruitment standards, the pressure is on the institutes to deliver. National surveys conducted by reputed organizations point out lack of quality orientation at most of the business management as well as engineering institutions in the country. Those that are especially coming under the scanner are the privately managed business and engineering colleges in most states. The ultimate loss is that of the student-an important stakeholder in the education process. The present research explores the perceptions of students as to what exactly constitutes quality in professional education. The paper examines perspectives relating to implementing quality initiatives-specifically quality at the source- in these institutions of higher learning and concludes that ‘quality’ is actually about changed mindsets, increased accountability and enhanced efficiency.
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Quality in Education, Internal Quality Assessment, Total Quality Management |
The International Journal of Learning, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp.159-174.
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Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
Payal Mehra(MBA,PhD) has 12 years teaching experience.She
is currently Faculty in the Communications Group of a
reputed Business School in India, the Indian Institute of
Management Lucknow. Her research interests include
analysing the impact of technology on communication, as
well as aspects relating to the teaching learning
methodologies in higher education.She has nine published
research papers to her credit including one in an
international journal. Two research papers are in the final
stages of consideration in various international
journals.She has presented research papers in three
national conferences and one international conference. She
has to her credit the 'Best Paper Award' from the Indian
Society of Training and Development She has succesfully
conducted a number of Executive Development Programmes on
communication skills
Professor, Faculty, Lucknow University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
Prof J V Vaishapayan is a distingushed Professor at the University of Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh, in the Department of Applied Economics. His
research interests include aspects relating to quality in
Higher education as well as economics. He has authored two
books on the theory of micro and macro economics and has
several research papers to his credit. Till date he has
guided nine research dissertations.
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
EDUCATION Master Of Engineering (M.E)
Punjab University, Chandigarh(U.T), India, May 1999
Punjab Engineering College ,Chandigarh.
Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E)
Punjab University, Chandigarh(U.T), India, May 1990
Punjab Engineering College , Chandigarh.
EXPERIENCE Total Experience : 14 years
Research and Publications:
• Authored a book on “Management Information Systems” , Published by the Oxford University press (India)
• Currently writing another book on “E-commerce for business managers” , for the Oxford University Press(India)
• Presented and published a paper in EDMEDIA-2006, Orlando, Florida, USA by the title of “Learning environment, human agents and information systems”.
• Paper accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of Icfai Journal of Management Research, titled “Impact of Information Systems on Creating a Knowledge Culture in Educational Institutions”.
• Paper accepted for presentation by the Global Digital Business Association, USA, titled “Impact of Information Systems on Creating a Knowledge Culture in Educational Institutions”.
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