Impact of Quality Assurance and Improvement on UK's Education System

This report delves into the significance of quality assurance and quality improvement within the UK education system, focusing on its application in primary schools. It explores the core principles of quality assurance, such as ensuring proper facilities, qualified teachers, and effective learning environments. The report also emphasizes the importance of quality improvement through staff development and engaging curriculum design. Furthermore, it examines key regulatory bodies like OFSTED, which inspects educational institutions, and OFQUAL, which regulates qualifications and examinations. The report highlights the roles and responsibilities of these agencies in maintaining and enhancing the standards of education across the UK, particularly in the context of higher education and primary schools, ensuring that students receive a high-quality learning experience.

RESEARCH (TASK 4)

Cover content
• Aim
• Objectives
• Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement
• Quality Assurance Model
• Quality Assurance Agency
• OFSTED
• OFQUAL
• References

Aim
To analyse the importance of quality assurance and
quality improvement upon development education
system of UK

Objectives
• To understand quality assurance and quality improvement
• To determine the impact of Quality Assurance Agency upon
United Kingdom's educational system
• To understand quality assurance and quality improvement
within the primary school of UK

Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement
Quality Assurance simply refers as the way of preventing flaws or
mistakes from manufactured deliverables. In context to education
sector, this can be defined as the process of minimising defects or
inappropriate activities from any school or university.

Cont..
Quality improvement mainly concerns with rising up the standards if
services. Comparison could be made by identifying the existing level of
quality in relation to standards that is being aimed for.

Implementation of quality assurance and quality
improvement within the primary school of UK
The primary school like 'Childwall Church of England Primary
School' existed in UK should implement appropriate quality assurance
principles in order to assure delivery of best standard facilities to
children. The main principles are listed below :
• Proper and healthy meals have to be given to all children.
• Skilled and experienced teachers should be appointed for the
purpose of giving education to students.

Cont..
Quality improvement is also necessary in primary schools of UK.
This can be done in following ways :
• Special training and development programmes should be
conducted for faculties, teachers or other staff member.
• Instead of forcing syllabus or other learning practices over kids,
an association ought to arrange games and attractive curriculum
for them so that they show enthusiasm while participating in
same.

Quality Assurance Model

QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCY
This is an agency which is liable to safeguard as well as improve the
quality associated with higher education of United Kingdom wherever
it is offered across the globe. They mainly check the performance of
learners who are working towards a UK qualification are receiving the
higher education as per their expectation or not.

OFSTED
OFTED stands for Office for Standards in Education, Children's
Services and Skills. It is a non-ministerial department of the UK
government which is liable to inspect a variety of educational institutes
involving state and few independent schools.

Responsibilities of OFSTED
• To inspect maintained academies or schools and various other
educational institutes & programmes except higher education.
• To inspect working of agencies dealing with childcare and
initial educator training
• To publish important reports of findings in order to up-garde the
whole standard of education & training.

OFQUAL
OFQUAL is the acronym of 'The Office of Qualifications and
Examinations Regulation'. It is defined as a regulator of qualifications,
assessments & examinations within England.

Responsibilities of OFQUAL
OFQUAL is liable to ensure that :
• citizens are having faith in the qualification that they regulate.
• exams and assessment indicate that what is being achieved by a
student.
• learners and teachers consist of information on the entire range
of qualifications that they regulate.

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