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Analysis of HMIE Reviews of Quality and Standards in Further Education Academic Year 2004/05

5. Main points for action

Main points for action are now recorded by HMIE only for the cross-cutting B elements in reviews. They have been organised under the same themes as in the previous section.

• Educational provision, design, planning and management;
• Learner services, resources and staff; and
• Quality assurance, improvement and enhancement.

The pie chart below shows the distribution of main points for action for each of these themes.

5.1 Analysis of main points for action identified in cross-college review: Educational provision: design, planning and management.

Twenty-one percent of all main points for action related to quality elements B1 and B2. The most frequent areas in which HMIE identified main points for action were as follows.

• Equality and diversity policies should be fully implemented throughout the college.
• Senior management should develop and fully implement a strategy on retention and attainment.
• Operational plans should embrace all support and cross-college functions.

5.2 Analysis of main points for action identified in cross-college review: Learner services, resources and staff.

Fifty-three percent of all cross-college main points for action related to quality elements B3, B4 and B5. The most frequent areas for points for action related to:

• systematic core skills profiling of learners; and
• systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of CPD opportunities for staff.

5.3 Analysis of main points for action identified in cross-college review: Quality assurance, improvement and enhancement.

Twenty-six percent of all cross-college main points for action related to quality elements B6: and B7. The two most frequent areas for main points for action were that:

• team action plans should be better targeted and more specific to help address weaknesses; and
• the college should develop procedures to systematically identify and evaluate best practice in learning and teaching.

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