The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) and the new Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) have issued the proposed Common Inspection Framework for inspecting post-16 non-higher education and training.The framework intends to set out the foundations for new joint inspections, setting out descriptions of good practice in education and training that inspectors should be looking out for.

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In a Budget attempting to please the voter ahead of a general election, the Chancellor will also have heartened many who work in the public services.On top of the sums already allocated to push up standards in the health service and in education in the 2000 Spending Review, there is allocation of a further billion pounds for each service.

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Wharton C LTraining for Quality, (UK), Vol 5 No 3 97

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Explains the impact that the decision made by Nortel (Northern Telecom) Fixed Wireless Access, UK, previously a Ministry of Defence site, to move from the Ministry’s quality standards to ISO 9000 meant for its auditing methodology. Describes how the audit group identified the need to move from a functional-based management system to a process-based system, indicating the alterations this made to Nortel’s organizational structure, and the role that the audit group played in defining this. Identifies the implications of the new structure for the audit methodologies, detailing the new system, and outlining how auditors worked with employees to improve processes. Notes areas that still need modification, but highlights that decision by the British Standards Institute to pilot the process-based audit methodology.

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