Welcome to the Support for Success Quality Improvement Programme website
We hope you will find Click into quality: the user-friendly guide to improving quality in adult learning useful.
For further Support for Success (s4s) resources and current quality support activities, nationally and in your region, click here www.s4s.org.uk
Click into quality
Click into quality brings together a wealth of resources produced as part of the Adult and Community Learning Quality Support Programme (ACLQSP).
Designed by specialists in quality in the learning and skills sector, these guides and tools offer support and guidance to all those with a responsibility for quality, whatever their role may be. The flexible package is a compilation of materials on the key quality themes and offers a practical, user-friendly approach. There is a focus on adult and community learning (ACL) but the website will be of use to providers of adult learning in a wide variety of organisations and contexts.
How does this website assist and support you?
It provides:
The website focuses on the principles and practice of assuring and improving quality in adult learning, drawing on 17 publications produced over the three-year programme from 2001 to 2004. It does not provide current information on specific requirements of funding bodies or inspectorates, which vary from time to time.
How to begin using this website
Select from the quality themes in the blue, left hand panel and click on your choice!
There are many links into publications. Where links refer to a specific page, take note of the electronic page number and, when you are in the publication, enter it in the page numbers box on your screen. To return to where you were in the website, close the publication.
What some users of the ACLQSP had to say about our resources
- "up to date, thought provoking and user friendly'
- 'it has been the most important influence and provided nearly all of the resource material I have used'
- 'the publications are a permanent reference point for all staff'
Writing team
Pauline Nashashibi (project manager), John Maynard, Ros Parker, Lindsay Perrin
Acknowledgements
With thanks to Anne Armstrong, Allan Chesney, Phil Cox, David Ewens, Mary Kelly, Annie Merton, Sharon Retson, Jane Riddell, Steve Sawbridge and Kate Watters for helpful comments on the text, and to West Sussex Adult Education Service for permission to use material from their website.
About the Adult and Community Learning Quality Support Programme
(ACLQSP) was funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) from 2001 to 2004 to help local education authority adult and community learning services develop quality assurance systems and improvement strategies. The programme was provided by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), working in partnership.
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded ACLQSP from April to July 2004. Since then, support for ACL providers has become part of the Support for Success Quality Improvement Programme (s4s).
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