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OECD Publishing, 2020
Kazakhstan has made tremendous progress in ensuring universal access to primary and lower-secondary education. Nevertheless, results international surveys reveal that almost two-thirds of students from Kazakhstan complete schooling without mastering the basic skills needed to be successful, and that student achievement is increasingly inequitable.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, School Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Hunt, Melanie – Adults Learning, 2010
Adult learning is alive in many forms. Whether it is helping to improve literacy and numeracy or to prepare people for returning to work, it is clear that, at its best, adult learning brings considerable value to learners and to the wider community. Individuals, their families and the nation as a whole benefit from enhanced social and technical…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Inspection, Academic Standards
US Department of Agriculture, 2010
Schools that serve meals under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) are required to maintain proper sanitation and health standards in conformance with all applicable State and local laws and regulations. In addition, schools are required to obtain two school food safety inspections per school year, which are…
Descriptors: Safety, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
Hankins, Enid – Adults Learning, 2010
Adult community learning in Wales covers a number of curriculum areas, delivered by a range of providers, including the voluntary sector. Classes reflect Welsh Assembly Government policy priorities, including improving levels of literacy and skills, decreasing economic inactivity and building community regeneration. A variety of community-based…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Inspection
Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, 2012
Policy discussions about funding in higher education focus primarily on revenues needed to balance budgets from year to year, rather than on how funds need to be invested to meet strategic priorities. The data in "Trends" show that the incremental approach to fundraising and spending has resulted in a slow disinvestment in core…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Budgeting, Expenditures
Education Scotland, 2012
The findings of Education Scotland's sectoral programme of inspections, which sample the providers of education at every stage from the early years to adult learning, provide a key source of evidence on how effectively one of its core public services is performing. The last published summary of inspection findings was produced in 2009 when Her…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Coffield, Frank – Adults Learning, 2009
One of the most radical actions one can take is to describe, without exaggeration or bias, exactly what is happening. The author has been reading the "Handbook for the inspection of further education and skills from September 2009." The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills' (Ofsted's) new handbook promises a "fresh…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Inspection, Benchmarking, Educational Quality
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Tetteh, Edem; McWilliams, Douglas – Simulation & Gaming, 2010
Customer needs for high-quality goods and the risk of product-liability litigation against businesses have made companies look for a way to sustain quality assurance in their products and services. Lean manufacturing is the latest and most successful system being used by companies to turn their business around. Visual inspection plays an important…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Inspection, Job Skills, Undergraduate Students
Watters, Kate – Adults Learning, 2008
In April 2007 "new" Ofsted ("old" Ofsted merged with the Adult Learning Inspectorate) became responsible for inspection of a very wide range of provision, including all post-compulsory education and training for adults. Significant changes in inspection processes had already been introduced for local authority adult and…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Community Education, Adult Learning, Inspection
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2009
Presented herein is a statement of George A. Scott, Director Education, Workforce, and Income Security. The author discusses the extent to which the Department of Education's policies and procedures for monitoring eligibility requirements for federal aid at proprietary schools protect students and the investment of Title IV funds. This testimony…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Eligibility
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Vannan, Elizabeth – Educause Quarterly, 2001
Describes a process for reviewing and improving data collection quality. The methodology includes a thorough business practice review, an analysis of existing data quality, cleansing of existing data, and implementation of business practice changes aimed at improving the quality of data captured by each institution. (EV)
Descriptors: Data, Data Collection, Error Correction, Evaluation
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2007
The recent wrap-up of an intensive, two-year examination of the federal Reading First initiative is not expected to halt debate over the program. Given the broad agreement in seven federal reports that serious problems occurred in the oversight of the program's implementation, the findings have sparked interest on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Quality Control, Inspection, Reading Programs
US Department of Education, 2008
This report presents the results of an audit by the Office of the Inspector General to determine whether the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) provided sufficient oversight of graduation and dropout rates submitted by states in their Consolidated State Performance Reports to ensure the rates were…
Descriptors: Agencies, Federal Government, Audits (Verification), Inspection
Delack, Renee J. – American School & University, 1996
Describes how keeping carpets in good condition depends not only on proper maintenance but also on careful carpet selection at the outset. Offers advice for restoring a carpet's new appearance through vacuuming and hot-water extraction and suggests ways to manage spots and stains. (RJM)
Descriptors: Carpeting, Facilities Management, Floor Layers, Inspection
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2008
This document supplements the advice given in "How good is our school?" (HGIOS)--third edition and "The Child at the Centre"--second edition which set out comprehensive quality frameworks and provide helpful advice on the process of improvement through self-evaluation. In particular, this document provides advice on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Improvement Programs
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