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Good… Better… Best: Ofsted reports how colleges can improve and why some don’t

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Further Education




Strong leadership and clear vision, challenging aspirations and targets, and a thorough process of progress monitoring and self-assessment, are just a number of ways colleges can raise the bar and work towards achieving outstanding status.

The report, How Colleges Improve: A Review of Effective Practice, published today by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted), finds that the further education sector is improving. Over 60 per cent of colleges are now considered good or better at inspection, up from just under 50 per cent in 2001-2005, the first round of Ofsted inspections.

It also identifies several factors which appeared to hold back progress in those colleges which did not improve their performance over the two cycles of inspection.

More at: http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7JEK2F

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