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LSC publishes quality guidelines for learning providers

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has published guidance for learning providers on self-assessment and quality improvement.

The document, ‘Quality improvement and self-assessment’, has been produced in partnership with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Adult Learning Inspectorate, Ofsted and Jobcentre Plus. According to the LSC, it’s designed to ensure progress towards an overall goal of consistently high-quality, responsive and improving learning providers.

Roger Marriott, Director of Evaluation and Strategic Development, LSC, said: "The chief purpose of self-assessment is to support learning providers’ own work on quality improvement and to measure progress against its own mission and goals. Self-assessment will make clear providers’ capacity to bring about improvement and their success in doing so.

"Evaluating the success of learners is a key focus of self-assessment, but it is also very much about assessing how well the needs of employers and communities are being met and the active promotion of equal opportunities and health and safety."

Lifelong Learning Minister, Bill Rammell, said: "Today we take an important step towards achieving our goals for the learning and skills sector. Effective self-assessment is at the heart of this Government's programme of reforms to drive up quality and standards. It is key to creating a culture of continuous self improvement and improving outcomes for learners, employers and local communities.

"The new Quality Improvement Agency we are establishing next Spring will also help learning providers self improve and be responsive to strategic change by sharing good practice, supporting innovation and stimulating curriculum development. The new agency will work with the LSC, the Inspectorates and others to implement self assessment effectively across the sector."

‘Quality improvement and self-assessment’ is designed for all post-16 providers funded by the LSC and/or Jobcentre Plus (other than school sixth forms for which broadly parallel arrangements are in place). The guidance is available in the LSC reading room and hard copies are being sent to all relevant providers.

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