Adult learning and skills: For adult learning and skills providers

After an initial teacher education inspection

There is formal feedback to the provider at the end of the main inspection week. Final judgements are made at the on-site moderation meeting. For each of the two main judgements, inspectors will need to:

  • consider all of the evidence under each of the contributing key inspection questions to determine the sub-grades
  • check there are no contradictions where evidence may contribute to more than one graded judgement
  • use the grade criteria to determine the main grades.

After an inspection and before leaving the provider, the lead inspector will make sure the provider knows:

  • about the grades awarded for each judgement
  • that the grades are provisional and, although unlikely, may be subject to change through moderation
  • that the main points provided in the feedback will be referred to in the report
  • about the recommendations for improvement
  • the procedures leading to the publication of the report
  • the complaints procedure
  • where relevant, about the implications of the provider being graded inadequate.

Following a moderation process by us, the report will be sent to the provider to check factual accuracy prior to publication.

The report evaluates how well a provider is doing, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. It will have information about:

  • the effectiveness of the training
  • what a provider does well
  • recommendations on how they might improve
  • overall judgements on how good a provider is in particular aspects
    • grade 1 (outstanding)
    • grade 2 (good)
    • grade 3 (satisfactory)
    • grade 4 (inadequate).

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