Sunday, August 16, 2009

Working Areas of Students’ Quality Circle

Working Areas of Students’ Quality Circle:-


As Students’ Quality Circles (SQC) is oriented to create problem-free-student’s-society contributing towards promotion of Quality Education as well the personal life of students, SQC have its’ involvement in the following actions:-
· Solving student’s problems from their own level, if not possible by consulting intellectual, elders, etc.
· Promoting quality education enhancing to promote personal attitudes (positive attitudes).
· Creating positive feelings among the students.
· Motivating more numbers of students to get involved in SQC Activities, so that they can be self-oriented.
· Creating mutual co-operation and respect among the teachers and students.
· Implanting the mind of co-operation, co-ordination and respect among each other in establishing social, political and economic justice in society.
· Establishing Quality Thinking and Thinking Quality promoting Quality Concepts.
· Giving impacts on the future of students on the social, mental and intellectual as well as economical activities, so that they could take care responsibility for their contribution to make a better living environment for themselves and for others.
· Conducting different types of activities leading to better future and exploring the means which improve the quality of life in more prosperous and peaceful world.
· Organizing excellent events to develop future performers as TQP who are expected to be perfectionists in establishing a peaceful society.

Objectives of Students’ Quality Circles.

Objectives of Students’ Quality Circle:-


As Students’ Quality Circles (SQC) are established to share the experiences between each other contributing towards partnership strive to solve the problems through mutual understanding, co-operation and respect among one another, the following points can be considered as the objectives of SQCs:-
01. To develop the following characters among the students:-
a. A positive outlook.
b. Awareness about good practices to attain excellence.
c. A skill to use problem solving techniques.
d. Development of interpersonal skills.
e. An objective approach to solve problems.
02. To increase the creativity power among students through various programmes.
03. To conduct and run various programmes because of which the mental, intellectual, social and rational aspects can be developed.
04. To identify the problems of students and suggest possible ideas for its solution by using appropriate tools and devices.
05. To expand the talents of students that enhances better future of students.
06. To endeavor to find out the possible ways of reforms in an educational field.
07. To create an environment where we can protect the students from possible discriminations, exploitations, misconducts and anti-social activities.
08. To conduct and run various programmes because of which the TQP can be prepared for the betterment of world in nearby future.
09. To take part in solving student’s problems according to the group decision.
10. To create a conductive environment of self and mutual development.
11. To make students aware of Quality Concepts from their early stage of life.
12. To enable teachers, administrators, students and parents to understand, initiate, institutionalize and sustain SQC as an integral part of Total Quality Management in academic institutions.
13. To expand Global Network of professional friendship and develop synergy for challenges ahead.

Introduction to Students’ Quality Circle (SQC):-

Introduction to Students’ Quality Circle (SQC):-

Students’ Quality Circle (SQC) is an effective medium for the students to accomplish the building of personality. It is an innovative teaching-learning method.
SQC is the medium for the students to share and learn knowledge on quality education. It is the best way for the students to analyze their own problems and solve them from own level. It can further be determined as the process of creating necessary environment where teachers, students, parents and community work towards developing students in a manner that would be highly productive and contribute positively to the society. In fact, SQC is a learning community as a group of students who come together with a willing spirit to learn and support one another in order to achieve success.
SQC is also the process of developing positive attitudes among students towards their peers, teachers, parents and society. It is also an effective medium for enhancing personality characters like self-confidence, emotional stability, communication skills, team spirit, problem solving attitudes, commitment to work and desire to excel.
City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India was the first school to adopt the quality circle in education as Students’ Quality Control Center (SQCC). Founder of CMS, Mr. Jagadish Gandhi and Dr. (Mrs.) Bharti Gandhi introduce SQC concept in an academia with an educational philosophy, “every child is potentially the light of the world as well as the cause of it’s’ darkness, wherefore must question of education be accounted for as of the world as well as of primary importance.”
The different international Quality Organizations like Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO), International Organization for Quality Management (IOQM), World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (WCTQEE), Quality and Peace Education Center, International Academy for Quality, QUEST-Nepal, etc. are conducting various awareness programmes, seminars, workshops and training about SQC among parents, teachers and students.
In the present scenario, the standard and quality of person has become the first causality in the race for the acquisition of material possessions. In this blind race, the character building and spirituality has been totally neglected with the result that man no more cares for the good of others. He has become selfish, ignorant and cruel about the real purpose of his life on earth and indifferent to the service of mankind. The purpose of starting SQC to make every child a good and smart, the gift of God and nature to mankind and pride of human race, as the ultimate goal.
In the present context, the different institutions and organizations like City Montessori School and CARITAS-Nepal are imparting quality education catering for material, human and spiritual requirement of children in order to make them Total Quality People/Person. Through this, we can feel that the educational institutions all over the world should strive to make every child, a TQP so that they may become internally Good and Smart.
SQC’s concept in an academia is a milestone to create student’s overall personality development. It is very important for all to accept a noble cause of building TQP for future. This facilitates us to learn and share ideas and knowledge on Quality Concepts and to collaborate to develop Quality Consciousness among each other.

Student's Column.

My Opinions:- SQC and Me.
  • Mr.Madhav Poudyel.

Riverside High School,

North Carolina, USA.

SQC (Students' Quality Circle) is an organization of students that strives to solve the problems faced by students through co-operation, co-ordination and collaboration among the eachother. These three term has there own defination,where co-operation is an association made for a common benifit, co-ordination is to bring forward common action among partners and collaboration is to work jointly together in team and share the benifit among the team members . SQC is a way to teach students to make them able in three particular fields mentioned above. It is the way of quality management,which is an opportunity to discover their invisible potentialities and use them in some important fields. SQC is the process of solving students problems by making them able to identify their problems from their own level. It is also the effective way to become Total Quality People (TQP) via Total Quality Management (TQM). SQC helps the students to achive exellence in their study as well as in their life by transforming their ordinary level into Qualified Level. SQC is an important method to develop the tools among oneself to overcome shyness, to increase confidence and leadership power. SQC help student in different fields. I am very much gladful to be recalled as SQC practitioner in this modern equipped world .
(The writer is Ex-Treasurer of United SQC in BREP. Now, he is working as USQC Contact Person for USA).

Meaning of Total Quality People/Person (TQP).

Meaning of Total Quality People/Person (TQP).
According to Prof. Syed Ali, the Advisor of World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (WCTQEE) of USA, the Total Quality People/Person (TQP) can be prescribed as follows:-
  • Smile more often.
  • The expressions, the body language and entire posture as far more important and have more far reaching implications then the words.
  • Maintain right attitudes.
  • Personal image matters; a good appearence excudes confidence and create favourable impressions if we are people of impeccable integrity. Our reputation travels ahead of us.
  • Effective communication. Communication is saying what has to be said with elegance, grace charm and class.
  • Time management.

About QUEST-Nepal.

About QUEST-Nepal.
Quality Circles in Education for Students' Personality Development-Nepal has been abbreviated as (QUEST-Nepal). In Nepali, it is Bidhyarthiharuko Byaktitwa Bikas Ka Lagi Sikchha Ma Guniya Chakra- Nepal and the title is often synonymised as Students' Quality Circle i.e. in brief SQC. QUEST- Nepal has been registered as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO). The registration number of QUEST- Nepal is 265/063-64 dated 2063, Kartik 09 (26th October, 2006). The current office of QUEST-Nepal is at Bagbazar, Kathmandu (Nepal). The telephone number is 4228539.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

How to support USQC to uplift the quality of Bhutanese Refugee Students?

Dear Well-Wishers,
Thankyou for visiting our blog with the view to be informed about the activities of SQC in Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.
In fact, we are conducting our activities with no any specific fund. Due to this reason; we are unable to conduct our activities in more effective manner. Hence, we would like to request you all, our well wishers; national and international organizations, intellectuals and dignataries to kindly donate your valueable support that will enables us to make our programnme more effective.
If you wish to donate your valueable support enhancing personality characters among Bhutanese Refugee Students; it is easier. Kindly inform us about your support through e-mail or telephone in the adress mentioned below. Follow the same way as adviced to you through mail or telephone.
We will use your support wisely creating "problem-free-students's-society" and promoting quality education in Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.
Thankyou.
Our Contact Address:-
Fr. Varkey Perekkatt S. J.
Field Director,
CARITAS-Nepal (BREP).
Sub-office:- Damak-11, Thana Road, Jhapa (Nepal).
Tel. No.:- +97723580219/583608.
Fax No.:- 0097723580472.

Co-ordinating Board of United Students' Quality Circle in Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.

Co-ordinating Board of United Students' Quality Circle in Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.
Fr. Varkey Perekkatt S. J.
Field Director,
Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.
CARITAS-Nepal,
Sub-office:- Damak, Jhapa (Nepal).
Tel. No.:- +97723580219/583608.
Mr. Loknath Pokhrel.
Education Co-ordinator.
SQC Programme Co-ordinator.
Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme.
CARITAS-Nepal,
Sub-office:- Damak, Jhapa (Nepal).
Mob. No.:- +9779852675512
Mr. Indra J. Acharya.
Founding Chief, USQC in BREP.
SQC Programme Supervisor.
Bhutanese Refugee Education Programme,
CARITAS-Nepal,
Sub-office:- Damak, Jhapa (Nepal).
Mob. No.:- +9779807065356.
Mr. Gopi Krishna Adhikari.
Founding Member, USQC.
Mr. Geeta Psd. Ghimeray.
USQC Co-ordinating Teacher.
Mr. Dil Kumar Subba.
Headmaster, NHA.
Chief Protective Committee, USQC.
Mr. Madhav Poudyel.
Contact Person for USA.
River Side Middle School,
North Carolina, Duhram City.
Contact No.:- +19198847145.

Characteristics of Quality Circles.

Characteristics of Quality Circles.
  • Participation is voluntary.
  • Creativity is uncharged.
  • Leaders get participation from everybody.
  • Members help eachother to develop action and programmes.
  • Training for members and management is available.
  • Supportive management.
  • Quality and improvement consciousness.

Philosophy/Objectives of Quality Circles.

Philosophy/Objectives of Quality Circles.

  • To reduce the errors and enhance quality and productivity.
  • Inspire more effective team work to the team members.
  • Promote job involvement and participation.
  • Increase employee motivation towards promoting the quality and production.
  • Create problem solving capacity among the QC Practitioners.
  • Build an attitude of "problem-prevention".
  • Improve communication skills among the Quality Circle Practitioners in an organization.
  • Promote personal and leadership development.
  • Develop greater safety awareness.
  • Catalyze the attitudinal changes for greater cohesiveness and team work.
  • Manage the development of harmonious manager-worker relationship.

Introduction to Quality Circles.

Introduction to Quality Circle (QC):-
Quality Circle is a group of people involved in specific works or proffessions who joined together with the view to solve the problems faced by them in order to promote the quality of their works or proffessions. Quality Circles are intended towards creating problem solving attitudes among themselves by analyzing their problems, recommending the potential solutions and carrying managerial changes among themselves.
Quality Circle is an effective access of quality management in which group's suggestion and member's satisfaction are most valued. According to Japanese Proffessor Kaoru Ishikawa, "Quality Circl is a voluntary group of people who meet together in a regular basis to identify, analyze and solve quality, productivity, safety and other problems in their working area, leading to improvement in their perfomances and and enrichment of their work life."
The first concept of Quality Circle was developed in Japan in order to identify source of variations in quality and management programmes. In those days, the Quality Circles were intended only to discuss the ways of improving products and proccesses in different business organizations or industries. The interelations between management and workers were given more priority to develop the quality production of particular bussiness organizations.
Now-a-days, the concepts of Quality Circles are also experienced in various non-industrial sectors such as Hospitals, Banks, Educational Institutions, etc. in various countries to promote the quality of their level. There are various Quality Circles among which Workers' Quality Circles (in particular industry or organization), Teachers' Quality Circles, Doctors' Quality Circles, Quality Circles of Ministers, Students' Quality Circles, etc. are in common practice in this modern world.
The main aim of Quality Circles is to create Total Qualified Society (TQS) under the effort of Total Quality People/Person (TQP) via Total Quality Management (TQM). Every Quality Circles are intended to solve their problems assuming to promote the quality of their level because a problem-free-mind is required to create an environment of Total Quality Mangement (TQM) and hence only the TQP are created signifying this beautiful universe as the Totally Qualified Society of rational animal. Hence, the development of problem solving attitudes would be an additional brick to create the world as the "Great Wall" of Totally Qualified Society where Quality People/Person live with Mutual Trust and Mutual Concern for development and co-operation help among each other.

Activity Report of USQC.

United Students’ Quality Circle
Central Committee for All Camp Schools.

List of Activities Conducted By United Students’ Quality Circle:-


01.
Core Committee Discussion Programme in NHA for the preparation of Guidelines.
4th October, 2008.
08:00AM onwards.
NHA, Sanischare.


02.
Formal Election of Core Committee in NHA.
5th October, 2008.
10:00 AM onwards.
NHA, Sanischare.

03.
Street Play.
20th –23rd October, ‘08.
08:00AM-04:00PM.
NHA (Ext. Schools).

04.
SQC Concept Development Training and Problem Solving Techniques Sharing.
25th Oct., 2008.
10:00AM-3:40 PM.
Ext. Schools, NHA.

05.
Participation during 4th NCSQC.
1st – 3rd Nov., 2008
St. Xavier’s School.

06.
SQC Concept Development Training and Camp Level Committee Formation.
29th Jan.- 19th Feb., 09
10:00AM-4:00PM.
All Camp Schools.

07.
Essay Writing Competition.
4th Mar., 2009
In All Camp Schools.

08.
Student’s Rally on Quality Education.
20th Mar., 2009
10:00AM-1:00PM.
All Camps.

09.
Student’s Problem Research Competition.
4th Apr., 2009.
10:00 AM.
In All Camp Schools.

10.
Solving the problems faced by Bhutanese Refugee Students according to the written or verbal information given.
From the date of its establishment.
In All Camp Schools.

11.
Seven Camp Core Committee Discussion Programme.
20th Apr. - 3rd May, 2009.
All Camp Schools.


12.
Interaction Programme with Teachers, Parents and CMC.
12th May, 2009.
11:00AM-2:00PM.
All Camps.

13.
Student’s Ideas Collection On Quality Management/ Motivation.
19th May-25th May,’09.
In All Camp Schools.

14.
First Anniversary Celebration Programme.
27th June, 2009.
11:00AM-04:00PM.
NHA, Sanischare (Participants from all camp schools).

15.
Case Study Presentation Training on the basic concepts.
30th June, 2009
10:00AM-04:00PM.
NHA, Ext. & Main Schools


16.
Quiz Competition.
30th June, 2009.
09:00AM-01:00PM.
BLES, Goldhap.

17.
Wall Bulletin Publication.
From 1st Dec., 2008.

18.
Student Quality Awareness Programme.
3rd July, 2009.
10:00AM onwards.
Marigold Academy, Bel.II Ext.

19.
Participation in Quality Management Training.
30th- Mar. - 2009.
Hotel Foolbari, B/nagar.


Qualities to be a Good Leader.

A Total Quality People (TQP) is also an effective leader. The top quality is inspiration. We have to inspire the people about what we are, where we would like to be and galvanize people to come upto that level.To be a Good and True Leader, we must have the following qualities:-
L:- Learn, Laugh and Listen.
E:- Empowerment and Empathy.
A:- Awareness.
D:- Doing what we say.
E:- Emotional Intelligence.
R:- Responsibility Fulfillment.
S:- Simple and Spiritual.