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Setting Expectations for Good Education: How Dutch School Inspections Drive Improvement
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Ehren, Melanie; Perryman, Jane; Shackleton, Nichola – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
With decentralisation becoming increasingly widespread across Europe, evaluation and accountability are becoming key issues in ensuring quality provision for all (Altrichter & Maag Merki, 2010; Eurydice, 2004). In Europe, the dominant arrangement for educational accountability is school inspections. The purpose of this research is to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Involvement, Inspection, Expectation
Developing Occupational Standards for the Advice, Guidance, Counselling and Psychotherapy Sector.
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Bell, David – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1996
Outlines the context to the development of national standards in advice, guidance, and counseling. Reviews definitions of national occupations standards. Explains the approach to writing generic standards across the advice, guidance, and counselling fields. Examines ethics and equality in detail and generic standards imported from elsewhere.…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Ethics, Evaluation
Setting the Standards: Implications for Higher Education of the Introduction of Occupational Standards for Advice, Guidance and Counselling.
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Rivis, Vivienne – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1996
Current developments in the delivery of advice, guidance, and counselling to students in higher education are outlined. A range of possible consequences for higher education of the introduction of occupational standards in the advice, guidance, and counselling field is identified. Issues that higher education institutions and awarding bodies will…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adults, Counseling, Education
The Likely Impact of Introducing Competence-Based Occupational Standards in Counseling/Psychotherapy and Guidance for Learning and Work.
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Oakeshott, Martin – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1996
The national context in which occupational standards and National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) have been developed is described. NVQ methodology is explained, and issues arising from NVQ implementation are outlined. Developments in accreditation within the contexts of counselling and psychotherapy and guidance for learning and work are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adults, Competency Based Education, Counseling
The Potential Impact of the Existence of NVQs on Advice Giving in Voluntary Settings.
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Jones, Alison – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1996
The impact of the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) on the role of agencies such as Citizens' Advice Bureaux--that is, voluntary-sector advice agencies with a strong welfare right ethos--is examined. The implications of NVQs on the everyday practice of advice giving in voluntary settings is explored. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adults, Competency Based Education, Counseling
Quality Matters: Business and Industry Quality Models and Further Education.
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1991
This bulletin provides descriptions of two of the most widely used business and industry quality models--the British Standards Institution system (BS5750) and Total Quality Management (TQM). The focus is on applications of the models in further education colleges. The first section clarifies what the term "quality" means, in general and…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Continuing Education, Curriculum Evaluation