Teaching staff professional development as a basis of total quality in university education

الملخص

Abstract                                                                                                    

      The study aimed at shedding light on the renewed roles of  the teaching staff that are in line with the requirements  and essence of the status quo.  In addition to that, it also aimed to show the relationship between quality assurance and quality of the teaching staff with emphasis on developing teachers competencies that will eventually be reflected on the quality of the outcomes that decides realization of higher education quality. The study clarified quality requirements and its relationship to the roles of the teaching staff and it revealed that quality assurance requires quality of the teaching staff, being a key factor in achieving quality. The study also indicates that professional development is a major requirement that would lead to improve the inputs, processes and outcomes of the educational system without which quality would be hard to achieve.