This course provides a conceptual framework for quality, standards, indicators, practices, accreditation, and benchmarking. It also traces the stages of adopting the philosophy of quality, the emergence of the quality assurance movement in education, its approaches and application models, intellectual premises and requirements for applying total quality management, accreditation of educational institutions: indicators for applying total quality in education, leadership of school improvement, self-assessment measures, quality control and assurance in the educational process, justifications and requirements for its application, as well as obstacles to application, in addition to some models of Arab and foreign accreditation bodies.