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. 

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.
And there’s a further third of a billion pounds available to step up anti-drugs measures. 

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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.