Quality Assurance

• The main purpose of quality assurance is to improve the quality of all aspects of provision involved in the QA process.
• Relevant staff should be fully involved in the process.
• There has to be a systematic approach quality assurance which is consistently used.
• Quality assurance must encourage professional reflection.
• Quality assurance should make professional riot personal judgments about the performance and development needs of R'I'P stakeholders.
• Quality assurance must produce priorities for action.
• Quality assurance should provide clear and concise guidelines for curriculum and staff development, so that stakeholders know what they are supposed to do.
• The underlying messages should be that quality assurance is to assist development, not solely or mainly to remedy deficiency.
• It is essential that there is a positive climate to encourage debate about quality assurance.
• There should be a system of evaluation and feedback that is known and acceptable to participants