Training inspections help to raise standards

Citation

(2000), "Training inspections help to raise standards", Education + Training, Vol. 42 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2000.00442iab.006

Training inspections help to raise standards

Keywords Training, Standards

The inspection of work-based learning has a crucial role to play in driving up standards, according to the Training Standards Council's report for 1999-2000.

As many as 85 per cent of providers of training who were reinspected because of unsatisfactory grades last year were at least satisfactory by the time of reinspection. David Sherlock, Training Standards Council chief inspector, said:

Given plain speaking about what has to be done, nobody is better at improving fast than training providers. There are brave managers in work-based learning: they face up to weaknesses quickly, take their staff and trainees with them and use the powerful quality-assurance techniques of modern business.

David Sherlock asserts that providers and funding bodies must work effectively together, using annual self-assessment, action planning and regular monitoring of progress, to fulfil the aim of continuous improvement. It is not enough to rely on intervention by the inspectorate every four years.