College Board Member Induction Andrew Brawley HM Inspector

College Board Member Induction Andrew Brawley (HM Inspector) For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators Document title Transforming lives through learning

Education Scotland key drivers • Legislative responsibility for assuring and improving the quality of provision in Scotland's colleges rests with SFC under the terms of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland ) Act 2005 • Education Scotland HM Inspectors supports SFC to fufil these duties through a programme of scrutiny and support activities negotiated annually • Colleges and HM Inspectors use the quality framework - How good is our college? to support this work. • Inspectors engage regularly with all colleges and undertake a range of scrutiny activities. To support good governance, they provide regular reports to college committees and the Board as required • Ownership for evaluation leading to improvement at all levels of college operation is the responsibility of colleges, supported by HM Inspectors • Colleges should engage in a cycle of evaluation determining and driving continuous enhancement Document title For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators

Since Covid-19 • Education Scotland has introduced a refreshed Corporate Plan to set out how we will support the education system, including colleges, during the recovery period • Formal inspections have been paused across early years, primary and secondary provision • HM Inspectors have been assigned to ‘localities’ (Regional Improvement Collaboratives) to provide recovery support for establishment and local authorities Document title For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators

College sector • To support the college sector during 2020 -21, link HM Inspectors will work flexibly and responsively to provide support and challenge as required • HM Inspectors have developed support materials to assist colleges to plan and manage adjustments in response to the pandemic, and support improvement • The materials focus on four themes: • Curriculum, learning teaching and assessment • Services to support learning • Transitions • Evaluation to facilitate improvement Document title For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators

Support materials • Individual colleges and link Inspectors will determine how best to make use of the support materials • They provide an opportunity for college staff to reflect on approaches adopted, to identify what is working well and what requires adjustment or improvement • College link Inspectors will attend meetings (virtually for now) where appropriate to gather relevant information. • Best practice approaches will be captured and promoted more widely across the sector • Collated information will inform discussions held with SFC and SG where appropriate Document title For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators

Key focus questions • what arrangements are in place to provide a digital infrastructure that enables learning and teaching to take place in college and off campus? • what arrangements are in place to support staff and learners to adjust to changes to the curriculum? • what arrangements are in place for engaging with employers and stakeholders to ensure the curriculum meets changing local and regional needs? • what arrangements are in place to enable staff, learners and external stakeholders to access services to support learning? • what arrangements are in place to ease and smooth transition into and out of college programmes? • what arrangements are in place to enable assessment on and off campus? • what arrangements are in place for determining future curriculum? • what arrangements are in place to reflect on and evaluate progress made in relation to the 4 themes of the support materials? Document title For Scotland's learners, with Scotland's educators

Any questions? Andrew. Brawley@educationscotland. gov. scot Document title Scotland'slearners, with educators For Scotland's with. Scotland's educators