Description
This project arises out of work conducted in the University of Winchester as part of the QuBE (Quality in Business Education) FDTL5 project, which aims to improve quality management in UK business schools.
This project concentrates on developing support tools for such people to help them to develop their quality processes. Such tools encourage innovation in teaching, transfer of good practice, structured reflection, self-evaluation and would be very much peer driven. In adopting such a bottom-up approach it must be recognised that departments and schools vary considerably. The quality assurance issues posed by a few HE students in an FE college are unlikely to be the same as those facing a large university school. The project therefore aims: to investigate the extent to which individual school and department heads have the autonomy to develop quality management to produce material that will help school and departmental heads to develop and implement their own strategies for transformative quality management to characterise the variation with size of school or department, institutional size and structure, extent of departmental autonomy and faculty complexity of issues that impinge upon quality management.
