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- Title
APPLICATION OF ISO 9000 SERIES QUALITY MANAGEMENT STANDARDS AT A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION: A CASE OF LITHUANIAN MARITIME COLLEGE.
- Authors
Senčila, Viktoras; Skiparienė, Ingrida
- Abstract
The European education standards assurance and pursuit of quality in education have been announced as strategic aims of the Lithuanian education system in the light of new challenges the society is facing and opportunities offered by democracy, development of market economy and globalisation. One of the ways to achieve the aims mentioned above is the implementation of ISO 9000 (International Organization for Standardization) series standards in higher education institutions. The key aim of the standards is to recommend for an organisation how an efficient quality management system should be developed to encourage through its functioning continual development of an organisation. The article overviews specific quality requirements for marine training, the development of ISO series standards is discussed, concepts and structures of contemporary quality management systems based on ISO regulations are analysed. The peculiarities of the application of the standards in a tertiary school are revealed and description of the quality management system and its application experience at the Lithuanian Maritime College is presented.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; EDUCATIONAL standards; ISO 9000 Series Standards; HIGHER education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges
- Publication
Quality of Higher Education, 2007, Vol 4, p53
- ISSN
1822-1645
- Publication type
Article