Analysis of Professional Practice in UK Education System: Report

This report examines professional practice within the UK education system, focusing on quality assurance and improvement, current educational policies, and the influence of social, political, and economic factors. It analyzes the roles of organizations like the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and O...Read More

Wider
Professional
Practice TASK 4

Introduction
Developing understanding of professional practice is very essential for
teachers and learner providers in education skills sector. Further, task will be
presenting the impact of national, local and institutional policies on schools and
colleges in their practice. This is majorly focused on the current issues
educational, policies & social factors and political factors. Further, it will also
explain the learners, current educational, organization and code practices (Silva,
Klein and Cavazotti, 2015). Present report will be based on some educational
topic which helps to create long term channel and growth.

Aims & Objectives
Aims :
To identify the overall UK education structure and quality assurance based on
the case study of Cardiff University.
Objectives :
 To identify the proper education system in UK education policy structure.
 To ascertain the quality assurance and quality improvement.

Session Evaluation

Discourse Quality assurance Agency
• It is an independent body which is responsible for checking quality of
education system of UK.
• It develop many programs in order to take review the education system
such as it conducts quality assessment reviews to make sure the correct
activities, develop references points and guide the teachers or professors.
• QAA also keeps a check on universities, colleges and other higher
education centres, to maintain their quality and academic standards.
• QAA methods also informed by self evaluation which are submitted in
advance by Cardiff University.

Discourse OFSTED
• It is the official department of education ministry that deals with issue and
long lasting effect on education sector. Its annual point in time online
survey for children homes.
• The office provides students in education, is the overall section material
guide for the children development.
• OFSTED inspection helps to make sure the school improvement and long
lasting improvement in the education sector.
• OFSTED claims the hidden absence of a strongly formed theory of
inspection and description of how inspection works to increase the quality
improvement in education industry.
This is the function in which survey is conducted to ensure quality of school,
institutions and the study pattern of students (Ofsted issues annual point-in-
time online surveys. 2018).

Individual presentation materials

Quality assurance and quality improvement in
primary school in the UK.
Quality is the major concern in universities, colleges and schools.
Therefore education sector requires to adopt, challenging goals and ideas
which needs to be implemented with code of practice in more systematic
manner.
Teachers and promoters required to adopt new changes in policies and
teaching guide to develop growth opportunity for the students career.
According to quality assurance there are some following groups which
based on the needs of school improvement plan as given below :
 School events
 Visiting specialists
 School website
 Literacy focus on reading
 Eco

Learning Outcomes
– Describing the quality Assurance and Quality improvement
– Current educational policies
– Social, political and economic factors
– Organization policies, codes of practice and guidelines
– Discourse Quality assurance Agency
– Quality assurance and quality improvement in primary school in the
UK.

Conclusion
By summing up above report, it has been concluded that professional
practice plays an important role in every education system. The report
presents current educational policies and influence of social, political as
well as economic factors on organizational policies, codes of practices with
guidelines. The report also helps to understand the quality assurance as
well as quality improvement. It also describes the discourse of quality
assurance agency, OFSTED and OFQUAL. The report helps to provide
brief about lines of responsibility that contributes to Cardiff University and
also provide analysis of quality improvement in an organization.

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