Performance Management within a Self Regulating FE System

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Performance Management within a Self Regulating
FE System
Phil Cox Senior Project Leader FE Self Regulation
Project May 2008
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Self Regulation the Vision

• A further education sector comprising
• autonomous, demand-led, organisations
• acting individually and collectively within
• a self regulation system in delivering
• high quality, responsive provision for the
• benefit of learners, employers and
• communities and operating as a trusted
• partner of government.

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Single Voice for Self Regulation

• Nine representative bodies - ALP, AoC, HOLEX,
  Landex, MEG, NATSPEC, NIACE, SFCF, 157 Group.
• Represents the sector in strategic dialogue with
  government on regulatory matters.
• Responsible for devising and maintaining the
  framework for self regulation and developing a
  rolling programme of activity for this purpose.
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Performance Management

• A performance management system through
• which providers demonstrate, individually
• and collaboratively, their capacity for
• assuring minimum levels of performance and
• for continuously improving the quality and
• standards of provision for the benefit of
• learners, employers and local communities.

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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT WITHIN A SELF-REGULATING
FE SYSTEM
NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY
PROVIDER RESPONSIBILITIES
COLLABORATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
SECTOR-WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Organisational Review Development
Peer Review Development
Professional Review and Development
System Review and Development

• Identifying client needs
• Setting performance goals
• Managing performance risk
• Benchmarking performance
• Self assessing performance
• Validating self assessment
• Acting on underperformance
• Spreading good practice
• A self-improving culture

• Codes of professional
• practice for governors.,
• clerks, managers, teachers
• and other practitioners
• To include the Code of
• Professional Practice of the
• Institute for Learning, based
• on behaviours expected of
• teachers including
• Integrity
• Respect
• Care
• Practice
• Disclosure
• Responsibility

• Benchmarking performance
• Validating self assessment
• Identifying improvement needs and opportunities
• Sharing / transferring practice
• Joint planning / action on underperformance
• Monitoring impact

Codes of Conduct and Practice
Information and Guidance Standards
Managing Underperformance
Development Support Programmes
Single Quality Framework
EXTERNAL REGULATION INSPECTION / FFE /
INTERVENTION
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Critical Issues

• Defining the self in self regulation
• Aligning external regulation to the needs and
  capabilities of a self regulating system
• Relationship between the regulatory and
  improvement support elements of the system.
• Capacity building for performance management
  through the National Improvement Strategy

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White Paper Raising Expectations

• The challenge now is to ensure the sector has
• the support it needs for the next steps of its
• improvement journey, in the increasingly
• demanding environment of self regulation,
• cross-sector partnership and customer
• responsiveness. Paragraph 11.4

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Realising Self Regulationfind out more...

• www.feselfregulation.org.uk