*Explores the best acknowledged ways to maintain and improve school education in the UK *Highlights ways for achieving required standards (such as DfEE standards) *Explores the need to find the right balance between external inspection and internal self-examination as methods for identifying sustainable improvements in schools. While predominantly directed at quality in schools, the book looks outward to quality assurance routes used in FE/HE colleges. It provides a practical opportunity for assessing the effectiveness of methods of quality measurement and shows that inspection is a necessary, but not solely sufficient, condition to develop quality.

Dr Colin Bayne-Jardine, Charles Hoy, Dr Margaret Wood

Introduction, Maurice Holt; Chapter 1 The Quality Business; Chapter 2 Inspecting It in is Out; Chapter 3 Quality Enhancement Through Development Review; Chapter 4 Development From Within; Chapter 5 Validated Self-Review; Chapter 6 Improving Quality Through a Productive Partnership; Chapter 7 Using Problem Solving for Quality Development; Chapter 8 Quality: the Search for the Holy Grail of Organizational Development;