Doubts have been raised over the adequacy of supply of appropriately skilled graduates from UK higher education (HE …) institutes to employers. Changing educational provision to met these employers’ requiremetns may be one of the foremost future … challenges to the higher education sector. It has been suggested that to address this challenge a total quality management (TQM …

of total quality management (TQM) within the organisation’s business strategy. Although most of the published case … size of organisation. This paper describes how the quality and reliability (Q&R) team of the Warwick Manufacturing Group …

Emphasis on quality improvement has been one of the most characteristic features of higher education policy in Nordic … and other European countries during the 1990s. In Sweden, the universities’ work with quality management has been … system for quality assessment. The Swedish assessment system stresses that the assessment should have as a corner‐stone the …

importance‐satisfaction model (I‐S model) was then applied to place each quality attribute into the I‐S model, and thus determine …

Presents a brief assessment of the quality movement in Fiji, which has the largest economy in the South Pacific islands …. Relates the history of the beginning of the movement, then presents the means used by Fiji to introduce the quality movement … in the country by the creation of the FNTC, the organization of the national quality convention and the establishment of …

Offers, as a contribution to the debate on probabilistic engineering design, the suggestion that quality problems in …

their time in pursuit of quality. Training was accomplished through sharing community expertise, apprenticing, and rotating …

Presents findings from a study that investigated the propagation of quality management practices among Indian … on 500 selected companies from 14 manufacturing sectors. The extent to which quality management practices have been … implemented is reported and the obstacles to adoption are identified. The spread of quality initiatives in various functional …