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Education Department starts to implement Mulkerrin Recommendations
PRESS RELEASE
Embargoed until 00.01am Monday, 23rd January
Education Department starts to implement Mulkerrin Recommendations
From today, parents and members of the wider community will be able to access online copies of the full School Validation Reports undertaken as part of Phase 3 of the Bailiwick's school inspection programme. Phase 3 began in January 2011.
The Education Board has also agreed to commission an Ofsted-style inspection of the Department to be undertaken during the next States term. A full break down of GCSE results will be included in the Department's Annual Report due to be published shortly and the Board has confirmed that provisional individual school GCSE results and a Bailiwick summary will be released on results day in August.
The Department inspects the quality of education provided by States-maintained schools using a system called Validated School Self-Evaluation or VSSE.
The Department's practice has always been that a hard copy of the full VSSE report was available on request from the school or Department and parents were informed of this when receiving copies of the parental summary reports. In response to the recent Review of Education, both are now available online.
The current arrangements for VSSE require that each school carries out self-evaluation on an annual basis and that each school is subject to external validation and inspection every four years by a team of external, experienced validators/inspectors provided by Tribal Group (Education and Technology Branch). Tribal is the largest provider of services for the Office of Standards in Education (Ofsted) in the UK and currently works across five continents with a range of education providers. Schools are given a term's notice of their external validation.
The VSSE report provides information to the school, parents, learners, the Education Department and other stakeholders on how well the school is performing in different aspects of its work. It also assists the Department to know which schools need extra support, and how it might be able to provide it.
Following validation, the school integrates the areas designated for improvement into its planning and this is monitored in follow-up visits by officers from the Department and by a post-validation visit by the external validator working in conjunction with Education officers. The Post Validation review follow-up visit by the lead validator takes place between six months and two years after the full validation to ensure that the school is on track and implementing proposals for improvement.
Full Validation reports are presented to the Education Board for approval, following which the school sends a copy of a summary report to all parents. Parents may request a hard copy of the full report from the school or the Education Department.
Copies of the full reports and summaries are also now available at www.education.gg/VSSE
Note to Editors: All VSSE Phase 3 reports will be available to download from this webpage on Monday. Schools inspected to date are: St. Sampson's High School, Le Murier, La Houguette Primary, Notre Dame du Rosaire Roman Catholic Primary, St. Andrew's Primary, and St. Sampson's Infant School. Subsequent reports will be added as inspections are completed. Two school inspections are usually completed every term.
