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A philosophy glossary says that quality is an attribute or a property. According our common sense, usually we speak about better or worth quality. In both cases, the quality depends on either subjective feelings or objective facts and on the criteria being applied to. We discuss in this paper the term “quality of education” and critically compare different definitions of this specific term. We consider education as a universal public good, entity, determined quality in the philosophical sense. However, the term “quality of education” suppose comparison and assessment or measurement of value and management of quality. Often the quality of study programmes is in use instead of that. Then the theory of total quality management helps to improve quality. Known that assurance is its important part.
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Solovyev, A., Petrova, L., Prikhodko, V., Makarenko, E. (2017). Quality of Study Programmes or Quality of Education. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_34
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