Inspection frameworks | Inspection and review - Education Scotland
Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education. ... Each framework includes a set of Quality Indicators (QIs) which inspectors use to reach professional evaluations. ... Inspections and reviews use selected QIs, themes from QIs or look at themes across QIs ...
School inspection framework and models
The school inspection framework review will aim to develop a new quality framework, and enhance approaches to school inspections. The review will explore various aspects of the school inspection process, including the ‘How Good Is Our School?’ 4th edition framework, activities before, during and following an inspection, and how we report our findings.
The QIs also form the framework used by HM Inspectors to evaluate the quality of education provision as part of inspection and review. This strong focus on developing self-evaluation complemented by proportionate arrangements for external inspection and review has been a defining characteristic of quality and improvement in Scottish education.
School inspection framework and models - Education Scotland
The school inspection framework review will aim to develop a new quality framework, and enhance approaches to school inspections. The review will explore various aspects of the school inspection process, including the ‘How Good Is Our School?’ 4th edition framework, activities before, during and following an inspection, and how we report our findings.
Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education. ... Each framework includes a set of Quality Indicators (QIs) which inspectors use to reach professional evaluations. ... Inspections and reviews use selected QIs, themes from QIs or look at themes across QIs ...
School inspection framework and models
The Scottish education Inspectorate is one of the oldest in the world, with the first HM Inspector of Schools (HMI) appointed in 1840. Following the Scotland Act 1998 the Inspectorate was made an executive agency of the Scottish Government in 2001 and HMIe was answerable to the Scottish Ministers for the education inspection system in Scotland.
Quality improvement framework for early learning and childcare sectors
The Quality improvement framework for the early learning and childcare sectors is available on the Education Scotland website. It is important to note that the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland will begin to use the new framework for inspection from September 2025. This will allow settings to become familiar with its content and structure.
National Improvement Framework (NIF) - Schools - gov.scot
The National Improvement Framework (NIF) for Scottish education sets out the vision, key priorities and seven key educational outcomes for children and young people. The 2025 improvement plan sets out the full details of the actions that will be taken to deliver the seven key outcomes of the NIF, the evidence to support them, and how we will ...
2017 National Improvement Framework and Improvement Plan
There is, for all of us, a moral imperative to realise the key priorities of this Framework and Plan:- raising attainment; closing the poverty-related attainment gap; improving health and wellbeing, improving positive school-leaver destinations and achieving our ambition of excellence and equity in Scottish education.
Improvement Plan - Education: National Improvement Framework and ...
Sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement activity that needs to be undertaken to help deliver those key priorities. ... The Care Inspectorate and HM Inspectors are developing a shared inspection framework for use in ELC inspections, which will be trialled in ...
A quality framework for early learning and childcare, school-aged ...
Professor Ken Muir’s report ‘Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education’ was provided to Scottish Ministers in March 2022. The report included recommendations that the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland should develop a shared framework for the inspection of early learning and childcare (ELC).
School inspection framework and models - Education Scotland
The Scottish education Inspectorate is one of the oldest in the world, with the first HM Inspector of Schools (HMI) appointed in 1840. Following the Scotland Act 1998 the Inspectorate was made an executive agency of the Scottish Government in 2001 and HMIe was answerable to the Scottish Ministers for the education inspection system in Scotland.
Inspection and review - Education Scotland
Education Scotland supports the system to gather, analyse, evaluate and share an agreed set of data, including independent external evaluation. Our scrutiny programme reaches all sectors from early learning and childcare to adult learning and allows us to gather evidence of what is working well in our education system, areas which are showing ...
Shared inspection framework for ELC services including childminding and ...
The Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland are working together to progress the development of the shared inspection framework for early learning and childcare (ELC) services, including childminding and school-aged childcare in Scotland. The new framework will replace Education Scotland’s ‘How good is our early learning and childcare ...
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland
The Education Inspection Framework (EIF), implemented from 2019, details Ofsted's current approach to inspection and this is the document subject to analysis in the present article. ... School inspection is overseen by Education Scotland, an agency of the Scottish Government created in 2010. It was intended to bring together the work of Her ...
Education - achieving excellence and equity: National Improvement ...
A globally respected, empowered, and responsive education system with clear accountability at every level that supports children, young people, and adult learners to thrive. The system enables the development of their knowledge, skills, values, and attributes that give them the best opportunity to succeed and contribute to Scotland’s society ...
Evaluating quality and improvement in Scottish education
The QIs also form the framework used by HM Inspectors to evaluate the quality of education provision as part of inspection and review. This strong focus on developing self-evaluation complemented by proportionate arrangements for external inspection and review has been a defining characteristic of quality and improvement in Scottish education.
How Scotland’s independent school standards are maintained
All schools are assessed by Education Scotland in the same way that state schools are. Their inspection framework respects the varying nature of independent schools in Scotland, as well as the educational philosophy of each school.
Improving early years inspection in Scotland - Tes
Professor Ken Muir’s report, Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education, was provided to Scottish ministers in March 2022.The report included recommendations that the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland should develop a shared framework for the inspection of early learning and childcare (ELC).
Education and skills - National Improvement Framework 2025: improvement ...
A refocused Education Scotland will prioritise its functions on curriculum design, delivery and improvement, including the provision of resources to support high quality learning and teaching, support a national framework for professional learning and building on national leadership programmes.
Quality improvement framework for the early ... - Education Scotland
Education Scotland and the Care Inspectorate will begin to use the new framework for inspection from September 2025. With help from stakeholders, we have compiled some frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the Care Inspectorate website. Answers address some of the points raised with us so far. We will keep these FAQs updated as new questions arise.
Ofsted and school inspection changes - 2024 | National Education Union
A revised Education Inspection Framework (EIF) Ofsted will be changing the EIF, with the new framework coming into place for next academic year. Some elements of the EIF are likely to stay the same, including the current curriculum focus. Other changes proposed include designing a framework that:
Inspection - Putting learners at the centre: response to the ...
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. ... Inspectorate should re-engage with the Care Inspectorate to agree a shared inspection framework designed to reduce the burden on Early Learning and Childcare (ELC ...
Changes to social care inspections aimed at improving ... - GOV.UK
From today (Friday 4 April), Ofsted is making some important changes to the way children’s social care providers are inspected, aimed at improving support for children with complex needs.