Review reports identified and described a range of practice with the following characteristics:
During the review process, such sector-leading and innovative practice (SLIP) examples were identified in both subject and cross-college quality elements. In the subject elements, reviewers identified 20 examples of SLIP from six colleges. The pie chart below shows the frequency of SLIP examples for each of the quality elements in which they occurred. For this analysis, quality elements A1-A4, A6, and A8-9 are also considered separately, not under the general heading of significant contributory factors.
The pie chart shows that 75% of the SLIP examples were identified from learning and teaching, and programme design.
In cross-college reviews, 21 SLIP examples were identified. The pie chart below shows their distribution across the cross-college quality elements to which they related.
The pie chart shows that two-thirds of SLIP examples related to the quality elements B1: Educational leadership, direction and management and B2: Access and inclusion. The quality element with the next greatest number of SLIP examples was B4: Resources and services to support the learner, with 19% of SLIP examples.
There were no SLIP examples for B6: Quality assurance and only one example recorded in each of the elements B5: Staff, B3: Guidance and support and B7: Quality improvement.
The full range of SLIP examples identified in both the subject and cross-college reviews is available on the HMIE website using the following link http://www.hmie.gov.uk/hmiegoodpractice/Default.aspx. They are also classified and reported by quality element in chapter 10 of this report.