OBSTACLES TO THE APPLICATION OF QUALITY AND RELIABILITY INDICATORS IN EDUCATION COLLEGES AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

The objective of the current research is to detect obstacles to the application of indicators of total quality and reliability in the faculties of education and the requirements for their achievement. The research has raised several questions to achieve its goal after identifying its problem:

What are the concept, philosophy, and requirements of quality and reliability indicators? What is the relationship between the concepts and standards of comprehensive quality and reliability?

What are the quality and accreditation indicators and their requirements in the College of Education? What are the obstacles to applying quality and accreditation standards indicators in the College of Education?

These questions have been answered and quality and reliability indicators have been clarified, which are concepts of quality management and assurance. This philosophical and scientific field, which emerged from economic philosophies and their applications in the field of companies, has been transformed in the past century into the field of education institutions in developed, developing, and poor countries of the world to improve the quality of educational outputs. All our Arab countries have entered this field, including Iraq, and the nature of the educational, professional, and scientific researcher’s specialization in the College of Education is the desire to address this topic, especially since the Colleges of Education are one of the important institutions in higher education, due to the specialized educational and academic role they play for the scientific and humanitarian branches they include and the educational goals, as well as its responsibility and mission in the comprehensive development of the learner in the various aspects of his personality. Given this importance, many Arab and foreign studies have found that each university and college has its specificity, mission, and purpose to differentiate environments from one society to another in its educational and pedagogical policy.  The concepts of total quality, its indicators, and reliability were defined, and then its philosophy, goals, requirements, and the relationship of quality indicators to reliability were discussed. The quality indicators then set out the quality and accreditation requirements, which amounted to eleven axes for colleges of education, which were approved by quality assurance and accreditation in the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq. (Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research 2012, 40 p.)

Keywords: quality, the requirements for their achievement, Research submitted