The lecture was taken by Dr Russell Grigg and he spoke to us about ESTYN. He explained the main aspects and what it provides. Its job is to inspect the quality and standards in education. The sort of places it deals with is Nurseries, primary, secondary, independent, special schools and pupil referral units. It also covers further education, adult community learning and local authority education for children and young people. It has to inspect and monitor the teaching of education and the development of the training aspect. In the wider scope it covers work based learning, careers companies and offender learning. The lecturer then went onto explain that ESTYN offers advice to the Welsh Government on quality, standards and promotes the spread of good practice in education and training in wales.
Its three aims is the accountability for users and others through doing reports, improvements in education and training, and informing the development of national policy by the welsh government. There are three main questions that are asked:
• The level of standards
• Management and leadership
• Teaching and provision
They then judge on achievement and attainment by placing the setting in categories falling under the following:
• Excellent
• Good
• Adequate
• Unsatisfactory
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