Improving Quality Reducing Bureaucracy
The Improving Quality Reducing Bureaucracy Group is a sub-committee of the ColegauCymru / CollegesWales Board. Its members are drawn from the CollegesWales Board as well as representatives from DCELLS, the National Training Federation for Wales (NTFW) and Estyn. The Group's remit is to oversee the development and implementation of the Self Regulation Strategy and to monitor its progress. The Group also acts as an assurance/validation group for activities and progress; it engages actively with DCELLS, Estyn and other relevant bodies to ensure future inspection/quality frameworks meet the needs of the sector; and it works with Estyn, DCELLS and other relevant bodies to reduce external regulation.
Aims
- Self Regulation should ensure that existing practices or sources of evidence are effectively used in raising quality to compliment existing quality systems and to avoid duplicating and bureaucracy.
- The roles and obligations of the CollegesWales Board, IQRBG and member institutions should be clearly defined and agreed.
- Member institutions should agree protocols and obligations to enable CollegesWales to be a conduit for disseminating information and good practice therefore providing tools for self regulating.
- Benchmarking, sharing of data and best practice across Wales should have the aim of ensuring that learners complete their courses and achieve their qualifications and should reflect the diversity of the different member institutions.
- Data from benchmarking should identify best in class and identify weaknesses which require support.
- Activities for sharing good practice should be extended to disseminate good practice with external organisations such as NIACE and NTFW.