Future Approaches to
Inspection and Review
Scottish Learning Festival
24th September 2014
Marie McAdam, HMI
Patricia Watson, HMI
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What do we mean by inspection?
All approaches to external scrutiny across all sectors and
across all aspects of our work.
• inspection programmes relating to all establishments and services
• shared inspection and review work with other scrutiny bodies
• thematic and aspect reviews
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Principles underpinning this review
1. Independence, impartiality and
accountability.
2. Learners or users at the heart
of inspection and review.
3. Equality and diversity.
4. Transparency and mutual
respect.
5. Focusing on outcomes and
impact.
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6. Building on self-evaluation.
7. Partnership.
8. Improvement and capacity
building.
9. Proportionality, responsiveness
and assessment of risk.
10. Best value.
This review is
• About all sectors of Scottish education and all aspects of our
scrutiny work.
• A long term look to inform future inspection and review practices for
use in 3-5 years.
• Open to all creative ideas and is not about refining existing models.
• Dependant on a wide ranging consultation with all key stakeholders.
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Discussion Questions:
1. What approaches to inspection would promote a joined up 3-18
approach to Curriculum for Excellence?
2. How can we ensure we do not miss poorly performing establishments and
services?
3. Are inspections securing improvement sufficiently?
4. How can we communicate the performance of education authorities?
5. Are we focussing sufficiently on the real challenges of Scottish education?
6. How might we reduce the stress felt by establishments and services and
focus on improvement?
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In addition:
Next steps:
•
How Good Is Our School?
The
Next
Generation
Further consultation
through
conversation
days and stakeholder
meetings.
2015
• No proposals will be published nor pilot conducted until
the 4
HGIOS
beginning of 2015 at the earliest.
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• All decisions informed through discussion with external reference
group of all key stakeholders.
• Planning for change over time, not a single large-scale change.
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Why do we need a new edition of
HGIOS?
• Developments in educational policy
• Changes in legislation
• Improvements in self-evaluation
• New approaches to school improvement
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What’s important to us in our work?
• Taking account of stakeholder views
• Ongoing consultation and tests of change
• Looking inwards, outwards and forwards
• Accessibility, Creativity and ICT
• Self-evaluation for improvement and scrutiny
• Launch of HGIOS? (new edition) at SLF 2015
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Any Questions? Now or later…
• Marie McAdam:
marie.mcadam@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk
• Patricia Watson:
patricia.watson@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk
Lead Officers for Inspection and Review
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