The lecturer we had for What is Education this time was; Russell Grigg. Russell spoke about Estyn. He spoke about what Estyn does, where it does it and why it does it. Estyn inspects quality and standards within education and training providers in Wales. It used on nursery, primary, secondary, independent and special schools. Within those establishments it also looks at; pupil referral units, further education, adult community learning, local authority education services for children and young people, teacher and education training, work based learning, careers companies and offender learning.
Estyn also provides advice to the Welsh Assembly Government on quality and standards in education and training in Wales. It also promotes the spread of good practise in education and training.
Within Estyn there are three fold purposes, these are;
- Provide accountability to the users of the services
- Provide improvement in education and training and
- Inform the development of national policyby the Welsh Government.
Estyn produces reports on institutions and thematic reports.
The judgements in the reports are based on 4 different categories. They are;
- Excellent - Establishment has many strengths.
- Good - Many strengths.
- Adequate - Has a few strengths.
- Unsatisfactory - No strengths.
Each organisation is the reported on and put into one of the four categories.
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