Today in Andys Lecture we had a guest speaker called Dr Russell Grigg who is head of South West Wales centre of teacher education. From this lecture we learnt about the company estyn. Estyn are a company who inspect quality and standards in education and training in wales. They look at anyplace where education takes place and inspect standards and quality. Standards and quality sound the same however they are completely diferent. Standards mean a level reached for example getting a 2:1 or 1:1 in your degree, form this we can then see how much you understand and know about the course. Quality on the other hand refers to how much expirience you have. There are also 3 aspects which estyn focus on improving these include:
provide accountability to uses of services and other stakeholders through public reporting on providers.
promote improvement in education and training
informing governement in education and training.
When yestyn go around inspecting, they grade schools etc using by judgements. The four catagories are: excellent, good, adequate and unsatisfactory. By doing this we can see where wales is in the rankings and see what we need to improve on. Estyn aslo report on best practice.
More infroamtion can be found on:
www. estyn.gov.uk
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