A STUDY ON THE OPINION OF TEACHER EDUCATORS ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Assessing the teacher education institutions unveils many unknown elements of the institution and the purpose of assessment is not to categorize the institution as ‘bad’ or ‘good’, but to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses for the sole purpose of development. It takes time to implement TQM and reach a level where quality becomes institution culture. Crossing the stage of acceptance is very important. Continuing this trend through continuous evaluation, monitoring, and pre-planning will lead to the quality culture development and the investment in TQM is ready to pay-off the benefits. Unlike other approaches, TQM philosophy is human oriented, human intensive technique. Infrastructure and Technology may be additional aids in managing quality with TQM but TQM as a strategy does not get immobilized due to the absence of such facilities..