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Inspection and review activity from Education Scotland to support the Gaelic sector. College sector. Inspection and review for the colleges sector in Scotland. National thematic inspections. Through our national thematic reports HM Inspectors of Education share their professional view on particular aspects of education.

Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education.

HM Inspectorate of Education Logo. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) was an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for the inspection of public and private, primary and secondary schools, as well as further education colleges, community learning, Local Authority Education Departments and teacher education.. HMIe and Learning and Teaching Scotland were merged in ...

1.1 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education in Scotland (HMIE) is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Ministers. As an agency, HMIE operates independently and impartially whilst remaining directly accountable to Scottish Ministers for the standards of its work. This status safeguards its independence of inspection, review

create Education Scotland in 2011. An HM Chief Inspector, will lead the new education inspectorate, which is expected to become operational in autumn 2025. Age of inspectorate The first HM Inspector of Schools (HMI) in Scotland was appointed in 1840. Structure of inspectorate The inspectorate in Scotland is structured using a clear organogram.

The creation of the Agency was announced by Scottish Government Education and Lifelong Learning Cabinet Minister Michael Russell on 14 October 2010. [5]It was intended to bring together the work and responsibilities of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Learning and Teaching Scotland and was originally entitled the Scottish Education Quality and Improvement Agency (SEQIA).

Building on recent work undertaken by Education Scotland’s scrutiny team, the new independent Inspectorate should undertake the functions set out in section 10 of this report. Critical roles of the independent Inspectorate will be to support improvement, evaluate major changes in the education system and report annually and over longer ...

The Care Inspectorate has statutory obligations under section 53 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 to carry out inspections of all ELC and school age childcare settings that are registered with them. The Care Inspectorate will inspect all children’s services whether or not the setting delivers the funded entitlement for ELC.

As at 30 September 2024, there were 64 HM Inspectors in the Inspectorate function of Education Scotland. Notes (i) This includes HM Inspectors who are permanently employed by Education Scotland and currently work either on a full or part-time basis within the Inspectorate function.

10. Inspectors Background. HM Inspectors were first appointed in 1840 and have made a significant contribution to Scottish education since that date. On 1 April 2001, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education in Scotland (HMIE) was established as an executive agency of the Scottish Ministers under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998.This status was designed to strengthen the ability of HMIE to ...

In Scotland HMIE operates as an executive agency of Scottish government ministers under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998. The Inspectorate operates independently and impartially while remaining directly accountable to ministers. The core business of HMIE is inspection and review in order to improve the quality of education and raise attainment.

Janie McManus has been announced as Scotland’s interim chief inspector of education. Ms McManus, who has been strategic director of scrutiny at Education Scotland, will lead the inspectorate during the ongoing period of reform until the establishment of the new inspection body. The Scottish government has committed to splitting Education Scotland’s curriculum development and inspection ...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish school inspectorate has not published a report feeding back its findings from the hundreds of school inspections it carries out annually.. This is despite the system going through one of its most challenging periods in living memory, with pupil performance in key areas worsening, school staff reporting increasingly poor behaviour and pupil attendance a ...

Assessment within the broad general education: a thematic inspection. This report focuses on sharing the key features which, when taken together, make the greatest difference to using assessment effectively to improve learning and teaching and in turn, outcomes for children and young people.

This is an exciting time for Scottish education as we implement significant reform to secure better outcomes for children and young people across Scotland. His Majesty’s (HM) Chief Inspector will play a pivotal role in leading a new independent education inspectorate to provide public assurance in the quality of education, raising standards ...

The process of school inspection in Scotland is to be fundamentally reviewed, the country’s inspectorate has revealed. Interim chief inspector Janie McManus has spoken exclusively to Tes Scotland about her plans, which she is notifying education directors of today.. McManus, who was appointed to the role in November, wants to make school inspection “world class” and promises that the ...

The subsequent programme for education reform in Scotland has brought with it widespread debate on what the Scottish education system could look like in the future. The importance of curriculum design and curriculum leadership cannot be understated. The decisions on what children and young people will learn and the knowledge and skills that ...

The head of Scotland's second largest teaching union has told the BBC that "education is broken". Stuart Hunter, president of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA), said the schools ...

In past times, however, he stressed that Scotland’s education inspectorate had performed such a role with its Improving Scottish Education series of reports. (In June, Tes Scotland looked at why Education Scotland had stopped sharing national inspection overviews, with the last such report published in 2020.)