The document discusses improving vocational education and training (VET) quality from satisfactory to good or outstanding. It explores challenges in VET delivery and management. Research into characteristics of good VET is examined, along with evaluating learner achievement and measuring learner progress. The presentation provides examples of indicators that could be used to measure the impact of quality improvements and outlines key factors needed to move a VET program from satisfactory to good or outstanding levels.

1. FROM ‘SATISFACTORY’ TO
‘GOOD’ (OR, BETTER STILL,
‘OUTSTANDING’):
IMPROVING VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Sue Parker
GEMS Education Solutions
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3. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
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4. VET is not:
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5. WHY VET IS CHALLENGING TO
MANAGE AND DELIVER
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6. IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY
ASSURANCE IN BAHRAIN
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7. RESEARCH INTO ‘GOOD’ VET
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9. EVALUATING LEARNERS’
ACHIEVEMENT
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10. EVALUATING LEARNERS’ ACHIEVEMENT
- MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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19. This is an outstanding college Capacity to improve is excellent, as has been demonstrated by
the college’s record of sustained and very significant increases in success rates for all learners
and in its highly successful actions to tackle areas for improvement from the last inspection.
Inspectors found individual tutorial provision, a key area for improvement in 2007, to be a
core strength in contributing to outstanding outcomes for learners, with excellent
management of learners’ progress and target-setting. Learners feel very safe in the college as
a result of excellent arrangements for safeguarding. The college equips learners very well for
their future careers. Their practical skills are good and often outstanding. The emphasis the
college places on developing learners’ employability skills is shown in employers’ reflections
on the high standards of work and professional conduct they find in the learners they employ
The quality of provision is outstanding. Teaching and assessment are good.
Lessons are well planned and include a broad range of activities that keep
learners interested. Inspectors observed some outstanding lessons, showing
that there are very high standards in teaching and learning to be shared
The Principal, staff and governors have shown great ambition for the college and its learners.
Outstanding leadership and management, exemplified by rigorous quality assurance self-
assessment procedures, have driven up results and improved the quality of teaching and
learning since the last inspection Value for money is outstanding, as is evident from the
college’s financial health and outstanding outcomes for learners.
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21. FOR A GIVEN GROUP OF LEARNERS – HOW
WOULD YOU MEASURE THE DISTANCE
TRAVELLED?
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27. THE DYNAMICS OF QUALITY: EXAMPLE OF
INDICATORS FOR MEASURING IMPACT
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28. SUMMARY – FROM SATISFACTORY TO GOOD
(OR OUTSTANDING) TEACHING AND
LEARNING
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29. SUMMARY – FROM SATISFACTORY TO GOOD
(OR OUTSTANDING) MANAGEMENT AND
LEADERSHIP
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30. MOVING FROM SATISFACTORY TO
GOOD (AND EVEN OUTSTANDING)
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