The potential of distance education is widely acknowledged. The same cannot be said about its quality. It is because of misgivings on the quality of distance education that this article attempts to gnswer critics of higher distance education by exploring its potential in delivering quality programmes. In this attempt, the article compiles a compendium of major factors which influence the qualit...

SUMMARY This document has been prepared by the Secretariat at the request of the Chairperson of the Executive Board for the thematic debate of the 166th session. It first presents a brief description of the relationships between quality and access in education. It outlines the need for broader vision of the quality of education than is currently used to be consistent with a human rights program...

Most of the quality models that are commonly practiced in the business world have been adapted and used in the education sector. In this paper, we proposed to look at the quality issue in higher education from the marketing perspective; that is, to first understand the customers’ needs via their perception of quality. The aim of our paper is to assess the quality attributes of higher education ...

Integration of technology in all forms of education has narrowed down the gap between the onand off-campus students and has resulted in the use of the more broad-based term ‘distributed learning’. Consequently, distance learning is seen as a subset of distributed learning, focusing on students who may be separated in time and space from their peers and the instructor. The new forms and meanings...

INTRODUCTION High-quality residency training is of utmost importance for residents to become competent medical specialists. Hospital-wide education committees have been adopted by several healthcare systems to govern postgraduate medical education and to support continuous quality improvement of residency training. To understand the functioning and potential of such committees, this study exami...

In the past decade, there has been an enormous growth of distance education courses and programs in higher education. The growth of distance education is particularly evident in the field of health education. However, the enormous potential of distance education is tempered by one overriding question: How does one ensure that distance education coursework and degrees are of high quality? To thi...

The physical fitness quality is the basis of the students' comprehensive quality, and it is the essential condition of the development of individual growth. But today's school is more emphasis on the students' learning culture results instead of physical education. With the growth of the level of life, physical quality has declined. This paper expatiates the reason of contemporary students' phy...

Background There is a paucity of information regarding institutional targets for the number of undergraduate medical education (UME) graduates being matched to graduate medical education (GME) programs at their home institutions. At our institution, the Duke University, the number of UME graduates matched to GME programs declined dramatically in 2011. To better understand why this decline may h...