“Olivarez College Paranaque Quality Management System: A Framework for Quality Assurance for Higher Educational Institution Towards International Standards”

Abstract

The formative years of the 1950s and early 1960s saw much international flow of information and ideas across international boundaries in general planning as well as in educational planning. It was in a context of unprecedented economic growth by the Third World countries that the developed countries formally and equally introduced educational planning. Subsequently, it enjoyed full development in the 1960’s. Among the developed countries, there was the general acceptance that education should be regarded as an investment, as well as a consumption item. All of this was based on the “residual factor” approach to economic development. It was believed as evidenced by the development experiences of Third World countries that economic development is not economic growth alone. There are indeed some non-economic ingredients of economic development. This was borne out by the conviction that more than half the economic growth of the last decade in industrialized countries was due to factors other than increase of simple classical inputs of labor and capital, to improvements in the quality of labor particularly those to scientific research, technological innovation, and education and training. It was for this reason that educational objectives common to all educational plans, more often subsumed in national development plans of Third World countries, centered on the task of orchestrating the tremendous expansion of education systems with dual aim of both universalizing education and providing national economies with qualified manpower needed. Great hopes were placed in educational planning which was made to serve as a framework for setting objectives and priorities, directing educational policies, and optimizing the use of resources. (Miclat, 2005). The study also covers the integration of standards from various accrediting agencies such as PAASCU, PACU-COA, CHED and ISO 21001 in formulating and designing the quality management system (QMS) of the school-subject of study.