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Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education. Skip to main content. ... Inspection and Review arrow_forward_ios. arrow_forward_ios Main menu. Find an inspection report. What we do and how we do it.

Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education. ... We have developed our sector specific frameworks in partnership with stakeholders. On occasion, we carry out inspection and review in response to identified risks. In such instances, we may develop a bespoke ...

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 ...

Thirdly, a new and independent inspectorate body will be created. It will develop new inspection models and help to assess the overall performance of Scottish education. ... It is important that Scottish education reflects and responds to those changes in ways that offer opportunities for all current and future learners to thrive.

His Majesty’s Inspectorate Education Scotland November 2024 1. Overview of the Inspectorate Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) Scotland HMIe are presently part of Education Scotland, as an executive agency of Scottish government. HMIe is responsible for the inspection of, for example, public and private early

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The last published summary of inspection findings was produced in 2009 when HM Inspectorate of Education published Improving Scottish Education 2005 to 2008. Since then, the fast moving pace of change and challenge across the world and in society at large has been reflected in a continuing ambitious agenda for change in Scottish education.

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.)

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.

Meanwhile, in terms of the new inspectorate, one of the chief inspector’s duties will be to prepare and publish a report on their assessment of “the performance of the Scottish education ...

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 ...

Browse a range of inspection findings including evidence gathered in primary and secondary school inspections during session 2018-19. Other inspection findings Inspection findings including those from prisons, Modern Apprenticeships and Career Information, Advice and Guidance services.

Professor Ken Muir - author of a landmark 2022 report on education reform in Scotland - has questioned the “degree of independence” new legislation will give the schools inspectorate.. The chief inspector of the newly independent body would still have to seek approval from government ministers “to undertake certain things”, he said.

The history of Religious and Moral Education (RME) as a subject within the Scottish secondary curriculum has been well-researched over the last six decades and more. Scholars have identified a range of factors and influences on its development. Scattered across this work is a recognition that Her (now His) Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) and individual inspectors have been ...

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.

T he Scottish government’s reform of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and Education Scotland will create three new national agencies. However, while plans to replace the SQA and create a new independent inspectorate have been much discussed and debated, what of the “national agency for education”?