Improving Quality in Education

Download or read book Improving Quality in Education written by Dr Colin C Bayne-Jardine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Explores the best acknowledged ways to maintain and improve school education in the UK *Highlights ways for achieving required standards (such as DfEE standards) *Explores the need to find the right balance between external inspection and internal self-examination as methods for identifying sustainable improvements in schools. While predominantly directed at quality in schools, the book looks outward to quality assurance routes used in FE/HE colleges. It provides a practical opportunity for assessing the effectiveness of methods of quality measurement and shows that inspection is a necessary, but not solely sufficient, condition to develop quality.