When we talk about quality, different people interpret the meaning differently depending on their background, what they have in mind and the environment or discussion topics they are involved.
When you are talking to a group of secondary school students who are looking for higher education either locally or abroad, it is not surprise that they refer quality pertaining to what they can get from their education provider such as college, university, fees, principal, lecturer, campus environment, type of student background etc etc..
You can see from this simple illustration, the definition of Quality is really unlimited and boundlessness. Well, you can argue that Quality is defined as …. in accordance to the dictionary or reference book etc. The fact is this group of student is the decision maker by which they decide what is quality to them in order for them to make a decision where to further their studies.
Often then not, most student has lack of reference or testimonial for them to make a goof evaluation of the higher learning school. They rely on advertisement, word of mouth and perhaps recommendation from Parents. If advertisement is used, how true are those “promises” put up in the advertisement is yet to be proven. On the other hand, the definition of some of the big word used such as “world class”, “leading” etc by the advertiser debatable.
I found this blogs EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: World Class Universities? really open my eye on the claims of some college in their advertisement. So, as a parent, you need to be wiser when you read advertisement from higher education school.
