Association of Colleges

What is Quality and Regulation?

Performance management, improvement and regulation are crucial to Colleges’ reputation.

The Quality and Regulation team at AoC focuses on the work of Ofsted, the Skills Funding Agency, the YPLA and Local Authorities, the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, the Department for Education, Ofqual and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service to ensure that the needs of Colleges are understood and the burden of regulation and performance management is proportionate to risk.
 

Current Hot Issues in Quality and Regulation

• LSIS Regional Development Managers - A team of nine new LSIS Regional Development Managers (RDMs) have been appointed.
• Measuring disadvantage in Ofsted inspections - Ofsted will map learner postcodes against the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for 2007.
• Framework for Excellence (FfE) - The timetable for release of the results of FfE for Colleges will be published shortly.
• Qualification Success Rates (QSRs)

For more details on these stories, member Colleges should read the Quality, Improvement and Regulation briefing. If you belong to a College and do not currently receive the Quality briefing but would like to sign up to do so, please register online at this link. If your College would like to join AoC, please contact our Membership Manager, Anna Stella.

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