Applicability of A Proposed National Palestinian Excellence Framework in Higher Education Institutes (Case Study in Gaza Strip Territory–Palestine)

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1 Productivity & Quality Insurance Department Arab Academy for Science &Technology Alexandria Egypt

2 Vice President for Post Graduate studies and Scientific Research Arab Academy for Science &Technology Alexandria Egypt

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Higher education as an academic discipline has continued to grow in stature and significance. Part of the growth of higher education has been in understanding the methodology of evaluating students’ performance.The paper focuses on a proposed national prototype framework for‘’excellent performance in higher education’’at Palestine (Gaza strip).Higher education in Palestine is in a time of immense change and undergoing a process of institutionalization, despite the great pressure to demonstrate their value while expressing an increasing level of severe economic, rare resources, constraints and barriers in a turbulent uncertain environment.The expected outcomes of the national Palestinian framework are to help the institutions respond to the current fast challenges, transparency in governance, innovation in how to adopt learning knowledge and continuous improvement for sustained development.The paper presents an introduction and a brief review of the two most well established fundamental excellence representative models, the European Foundation  for  Quality   Management (EFQM) and the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (MBNQA), indicating that these are essentially diverse, then enlightenment of the proposed national Palestinian Proto–type excellence framework. The Proto–type excellence framework is linked to both continuous improvement in teaching and learning, mentioning that quality management is the foundation of excellence models.The challenges and benefits of the national framework are highlighted; its implementation has a positive effect on the financial and managerial performance of the institutions beside the satisfaction of stakeholders and reputation advantage for competing in a national context. Points to ponder with some criticism and limitations are mentioned.Finally, recommendations for improvements are suggested to facilitate best practice, enable change by encouraging participation of all concerned and suggest others might use to extend current thinking.

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