Quality Management Through Quality Certification in Educational Institutions : A Study of Private Institutions in the State of U.P

An educated society can bring up the desired changes for the acceleration of development pace. The state of Uttar Pradesh, one of the highest population states, has been witnessing a sea change in terms of technical as well as professional education. The government is promoting the private educational institutions to come up to fulfill the demand in the field of education. This has led to mushroom growth of private engineering and management institutions in the state. The requirement of quality education has left far behind away in this process of institutionalization. The quality measurement and standards are not being followed. Merely the documentation of the quality papers never facilitate in accomplishment of the objective. There is a need to actualize the performance through a standard performance measurement procedure to plan for the future strategically. This paper is an attempt to curve all those issues related to the performance and quality management in the educational services through the study of selected private educational institutions in the state of Uttar Pradesh. This paper also highlights the relevance and impetus of quality certifications in private institutions