MEASUREMENTS AND INDICATORS OF QUALITY IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Quality in education become an important issue. Indicators and measurements to quality in education provide crucial support to determine several aspects in educational centres. Lack of quality knowledge and culture, lack in working process and evaluation are the main barriers to improvement in the technical educational institutions. Moreover, more deep studies and researches are highly in demand. Due to urgent need to quality application in technical educational institutions; these institutions are not appropriate to the vision of quality as a result of absence of strategic planning, clear mechanism for leadership functional selection. Furthermore there is lack in management structure itself. The aim of this study is to investigate the current position of technical educational institutions within greater Tripoli area from May to November/ 2017, in terms of the quality indicators, and measurements as well as implementation of quality system in these institutions. The study is based on collecting and analysing data provided by the department of technical and vocational education. This work has been carried out to establish and implement a quality system in technical educational institutions. The work required an investigation of the area of research for such institutions to identify main aspects of enhancing quality departments in technical education regarding to approved measurements and indicators. This work also is a corner stone for future planning to implement the quality system in technical education institutions.