INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AS A TOOL FOR ENSURING QUALITY IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME: A REVIEW

Abstract

The need for quality in our educational system has made institution of learning to embrace internal quality assurance practices. Quality assurance in tertiary institutions is meant to checkmate performance of staff and ensure availability of infrastructure across department/units. Providing enabling environment for quality assurance and its maintenance is a primary indicator of internal quality practices of a given institution. Hence, the core purpose of quality assurance in business education is to attain effectiveness and efficiency of the programme towards achieving the set standards. In other words, quality assurance is responsible for assessing the availability of resources, teacher-students' ratio, infrastructure/facilities, financial support, monitoring mechanism, staff development etc. In view of the above, therefore, this paper intends to designates theoretical concepts of internal assessment system for educational institutions with regard to business education. The study will focus on some of the internal quality practices that are used for assuring quality.