Rebuild the Nation with Quality Education

Abstract

ISO 8402-1986 standard defines quality as "the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs."Quality is the measure of excellence and the state of being free from defects, deficiencies or significant variations. Quality Improvement and Sustenance have become the key areas of emphasis of the modern time. Higher Education suffers from the paradoxes of ill efficiency, mismanagement and lower productivity on account of lack of adherence to quality standards. This affects the students, teachers, parents, management, industries, society and the nation at large. In order to build a competitive nation in this era of globalization, a sincere effort in the direction of sustaining quality is called for. This paper attempts to elucidate the necessity of sustaining Quality in Higher Education from the perspective of institutions providing higher education and their management and gives recommendations on how it can be achieved to build a progressive nation. Key Words: Quality sustenance, Higher education, Nation building.

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