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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Environment and Quality Management for the Higher Education
Institutions to Achieve Research and Academic Excellence
Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer
(Narasaraopeta Engineering College, Affiliated to JNTU-K, India)
Abstract: Sustainable National Development (SND) is a kind of national development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability and efficacy of future generations to meet their own needs. Environment and Quality Management (EQM) in Higher Education Institutions HEIs) mitigates environment and quality impacts that succeeds to environment and quality education. EQM principles stimulate environment and quality education in HEIs for SND. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process requires multidisciplinary approach that is necessary in providing a prevention mechanism for environmental management and protection in any development. EIA process is designed to identify and predict the potential effects of the physical, biological, ecological, socio-economical, cultural environment and on human health and well-being are adequately protected. International organization for Standardization (ISO)’s 14000 and 9000 standards focus on EQM of all sorts of organizations apart from more than 19500 published standards. Environmental Management System (EMS) and Quality Management System (QMS) have been separately featured in ISO. The article highlights EQM for the HEIs to achieve research and academic excellence. Total Quality Management (TQM) can be broadly defined as a set of systematic activities carried by an institution to efficiently achieve institutional objectives that satisfies beneficiaries at the appropriate time and price. The definition of quality is “The totality of features and characteristics of products or services that bear on its ability, efficacy and values to satisfy a given or implied need”. TQM is a comprehensive and structured approach to an educational integrated management that seeks to improve the quality of educational services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. Thus this standard definition of quality is applicable commonly to both products and services that is stated and unstated. TQM has an important role to play in addressing quality issues surrounding the higher educational development. The objective of the study is to conceptualize EQM on the basis of visiting professorship and expert visits undertaken to twenty five number of Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) including formulation and appraisal of fifteen number of bankable detailed project reports (DPRs) of Diploma in Entrepreneurship Business Management (DEBM) extension learners of The EDI of India during the research year (RY) 1999-2015 in order to propose EQM for HLIs. The design of the study was cross sectional. It imperative that a policy decision may be taken to include the multidisciplinary subject of Environmental Impact Assessment Process in curriculum of all the professional courses in HEIs. It is concluded that EQM is a managerial approach centered on environment and quality through beneficiary satisfaction in Higher Education (HE) that succeeds to economical improvement and sustainability.
Key words: education, management, quality, sustainability
