The Quality Improvement Landscape: an overview NABSE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8 June 2005

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The Quality Improvement Landscape an overview
NABSE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8 June 2005

• Andrew Thomson
• Chief executive, LSDA

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What does a quality FE sector mean forstudents
and employers?

• Central focus on the experiences, skills and
  achievements of students/trainers driving
  providers forward
• An emphasis on learning for the students,
  providers and sector

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What does a quality FE sector mean forstudents
and employers

• Provision of education and training that meets
  needs
• For the economy adequately skilled, personally
  capable and motivated people
• For the country a concern for the economic,
  social and civilising benefits of education and
  training

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Improving services

• What makes people improve what they do?
• How are services and organisations most likely to
  improve?

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Self-improvement

• What encourages and enables people to improve?

• How can good practice be shared better?

• How can organisations help each other?

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Self-improvement

• How can creativity and diversity be encouraged?
• How can we balance accountability with trust?

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QIA tasks

• Promote clarity
• Accelerate improvements
• Support for reforms
• Promote self-improvement
• Be a single authoritative voice

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QIA and clarity

• Agencies co-operating in support of
  self-improving providers

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The QIA and clarity

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QIA outcomes of consultation

• Learning, shaping, improving
• Intelligent use of intelligence
• Impact and evaluation
• Identify priorities and advise

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QIA activity for consultation

• Systematic impacts
• Transfer of good practice
• Advisory networks
• Post-inspection improvements

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QIA reforms

• Skills
• 14-19 curriculum

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QIA content FE Review and public value

• What are colleges for?
• How are they measured?
• Outcomes or outputs?