• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.216-228
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• 1999

This study investigates the applicability of total quality management in the field of education, called the total quality education (TQE) It, first, reviews a few case studies in order to observe the characteristics of TQE and the feedbacks from practitioners. The key factors of TQE are then analyzed in terms of both the education concepts and the responsibilities of stakeholders. Finally, the relevancy of various TQE approaches and tools to the stakeholdership is studied.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.69-81
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• 2003

TQM which has been applied to the industry area is widely accepted to the non-for-profit area and public sector. Especially educational institution including university and college has adopted TQM as a competitive weapon in several developed countries such as United States and United Kingdom. But there is no interest in the Korean educational area except for several colleges which have got ISO 9000 certification. In this study, we analyzed several best-practiced foreign colleges which have applied TQM to improve their competitiveness. Also, we tried to explore the applicability of TQM to the Korean educational area by developing TQM model for 'S' college.