EDITORIAL QUALITY CONCERNS IN EDUCATION

Quality of education plays pivotal role in the process of development of nations. Hence, quality concerns in education are national priorities for all nations. Quality is multiple perspectives and is not a unitary concept (Newton 2007, p.14). The dimensions of quality in education include achieving pre-determined targets and objectives. Concerns for ensuring quality level has arisen out of factors such as decline in percentage of grants from the government sources due to sharp rise in number of institutions, students and teachers, dilution in quality of PG courses that produce higher education teachers, dilution in intake standards in PG courses, as talented ones join professional courses, low standard of members of teaching profession as non-teaching jobs fetch more income, The details of expectations from quality education differ from one situation to another. A Report of the Higher Education Academy of UK states that “among the general public and media commentators there does not appear to be a common understanding of what the terms ‘academic standards ’ or ‘academic quality ’ mean ” (HEA 2009, p.4). The Communiqué of the World Conference on Higher Education 2009 states that “Quality criteria must reflect the overall objectives of higher education, notably the aim o