QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION. PECULIARIDADES MODEL DISTANCE

Abstract

The author advocates for a conception of the quality of the higher education that harmoniously integrates the quality of the educational projects "per se" and the quality of its management. From the first perspective, he defends the need of surpassing the traditional self-limitation of the university just to knowledge transmission; regarding the second perspective, he turns to the European quality management model. Likewise, the author emphasises the need of approaching the quality from different levels, so that it would be possible to establish, for each level, the expected contributions as well as the responsibilities to be assumed. The general positions on quality are accompanied of reflections on its accommodation to the peculiarities of the higher distance education.