Would Marketing Aspect Be a Part of Quality System of Academic Institutions?

Similar to most  manufacture and service industries that use an input-output model and focus on the process and output measurements - as the central parts of their quality systems, academic institutions also focus their quality systems on teaching-learning activities, research, community service, management and infrastructure. Due to the changing of academic environments such as shift of the competition from national to a global scope, technology wizardry, and many others, different aspects need to be included in the academic quality systems in order to survive in this global competition. Despite the rarity of the marketing aspect to be included in the quality systems, this aspect needs to be considered as one of the key aspects for academic quality systems. The justification for the inclusion is  because  the  marketing  objective  which is to fulfill consumers’ needs and wants through products or services is in-line with the academic quality system objectives. A  number  of  arguments  on  the  importance  of  marketing  aspect  in  academic  institution  quality development  are  presented  in  this  paper,  and  the  applications  of  the  various  marketing  aspects  and techniques in quality standard development and practice are discussed. The discussion is focused on the marketing  audit,  and  it  is  based  on  some  observation  of  academic  quality  standards,  the authors’ experience in quality development in education, and library research.   &nbsp

The Preference for Round Number Prices

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Spirituality in HIV+ Patient Care

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