Vol. 9, Issue 6, Part B (2023)

Abstract
Various attempts and approaches have been made in order to provide significance to the development of the standard / quality of higher education. Academic, political, financial, social and other studies have received serious attention as a response to the standard / quality of higher education. Manado State Polytechnic is one of the government universities participating in educational development in North Sulawesi. However, research on transformational leadership style, democratic leadership style, in the context of improving the standard / quality of education at the Manado State Polytechnic has never been carried out. The aims of this research are (1). To study and analyze whether transformative leadership has a direct effect on the standard / quality of education (2). To examine and analyze whether democratic leadership style directly influences the standard / quality of education. The study population was lecturers at the Manado state polytechnic, while the sample use the nonprobability sampling method with convenience and quota sampling techniques. The sampling technique use is simple random sampling and the number of respondents is 72 respondents. By using an alpha of 5%, the results show that transformational leadership style has a direct effect on the standard / quality of education at the Polytechnic Manado, democratic leadership style influences the standard / quality of education at the Polytechnic Manado.