education scotland

Transforming lives through learning

Education Scotland

Ken McAra HMILead Officer: Special/ASN

Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012


Education Scotland: a new agency

• Scottish Government’s national development and improvement agency for education

• charged with providing support and challenge to the education system, from the early years to adult learning

• came into existence on 1 July 2011

Bill MaxwellChief Executive


Corporate Management Group


our strategic objectives are to:1. lead and support the successful implementation of the

curriculum

2. build the capacity of education providers and practitioners to improve their own performance

3. promote high quality professional learning and leadership

4. stimulate creativity and innovation

5. provide independent feedback on the quality of educational provision

6. provide evidence-based advice to inform national policy

7. develop our people and improve our organisational capability


purposes of inspection?

• provide assurance to users on the quality of

education

• promote improvement

• provide evidence to inform national policy development


a three-way partnership:

• schools evaluate the quality of their own provision

• supported and challenged by the education authority

• backed up by rigorous external evaluation

quality improvement in education:“the Scottish approach”


• How well do children/young people learn and achieve?

• How well does the school

support children/young people to develop and learn?

• How does the school improve the quality of its work?

QI 1.1 Improvements in performanceQI 2.1 Learners’ experiencesQI 5.3 Meeting learning need

QI 5.1 CurriculumQI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation


Entitlements E1

E2

E3

E4

E5

E6

E3

E2

E1

E5

E6


CfE Implementation Priorities 2012-13

• assessment

• broad general education

• senior phase


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