How will FETAC/QQI Re-Engagement Impact On Your Training Operation?
Click here to load reader
-
Upload
cathleen-hartnett-qa-services -
Category
Education
-
view
349 -
download
1
description
Transcript of How will FETAC/QQI Re-Engagement Impact On Your Training Operation?
How will QQI Re-Engagement
Impact On Your Training
Operation?
Cathleen Hartnett
QA Services
Ann Halloran
Head of Centre
In-Tuition Learning
and Development
How to Participate Today
• Open and close your Panel
• View, Select, and Test your audio
• Submit text questions
• Raise your hand
Poll
Do you plan to re-engage with QQI?
• Yes
• No
• Not sure yet
FET in Ireland Levels 1 to 6
QQI - Quality and Qualifications
Ireland
• 2012 Act
• FETAC, HETAC, IUQB and NQAI
• New website - ‘QHelp’ and ‘QSearch’ facilities
• ‘plain English approach to its documentation’
Re-Engagement
1. What is it?
2. How will it impact on you?
3. How much will it cost?
4. What do you need to do now?
1. What is Re-Engagement?
• Describes ‘transitioning’ journey from ‘legacy’
bodies to new quality assurance (QA)
arrangements with QQI
• Process is voluntary
What is Re-Engagement?
• Due to begin early 2015
• 2 to 3 years to ‘transition’
• Policy documents published by QQI - http://www.qqi.ie/Pages/Reengagement.aspx
• QQI will implement a communications
process
2. How will it impact on you?
• Will impact on all providers
• Change of relationship
• QQI is ‘open to re-engaging with all
providers, large and small’
What will QQI be looking at?
• Capacity – can you do all QQI will need you to do?
• Scale of your operation (in relation to QQI)
• Your level of activity
• Your track record in managing your quality assurance agreement
• Sustainability – have you a sustainable ‘business’ case?
Minimum Capacity
• Design, develop, deliver, assess ,evaluate and quality assure programmes
• Well-supported learning environment
• Human/financial resources
• Facilities and location
• ‘Education and training must be a principal function of a provider seeking to re-engage’
3. How much will it cost?
• Fee not yet confirmed
• In the ballpark of ‘€5000’ to apply
• Other costs – upgrading QA system
• Ongoing costs - managing and monitoring evidence-based QA system
• Invest in training/CPD
• QQI Fees schedule
4. What do you need to do now?
• Inform yourself
– Ensure QQI can contact you
– Review www.qqi.ie regularly
– Read the policy documents
– Sign up for QQI eZine
– Continuous monitoring of FET landscape
New QA Guidelines
• Review/know/compare them
• Governance and monitoring (KPI’s)
• Gone – Communications and Equality
• New - Quality Management and
Teaching and Learning
• Strong focus on PEL and ATP
Relationship with QQI
• Business as usual – keep your options open
• Ensure compliance
• Keep communicating
• Retain evidence of implementation of FETAC QA agreement
• Attend briefings/submit responses
• Use new QQI award brand and NFQ logo
• Level of activity – programme validation, certification
Self-Evaluation
• B9
• Every 2 years
• ‘Fundamental part of quality assurance
system’
• Regularly overlooked
• Can use it to evaluate how well QA is
working
Poll
• Are you due to undertake a Self-
Evaluation in 2014?
• Yes
• No
• Not sure
Programme Validation
• Plan ahead
• Will be seen as a measure of activity
• May need additional programmes to
strengthen capacity
• ‘Seeking validation of new programmes
will trigger the re-engagement process for
some providers’
Network/collaboration
• Get to know other providers
• Network with others e.g. Aontas CEN/IITD
• Can be done now
• Must be quality assured
• Lead provider is responsible for QA
Look at Alternatives
• Research other accreditations e.g. City
and Guilds, Btec
• Provide non-accredited training
• Collaborate with others
Questions
Is QQI recognition critical to our training operation?
Can we afford the investment/can we afford not to invest?
Can/how can we work with others?
Are there other routes to accreditation which might suit us better?
Attendee Questions
How Can QA Services Help?
• Keep you informed
• Training – enhance internal capacity
• Benchmark existing QA systems/QA Audit
• Coordinate responses to QQI consultations
• Advise/facilitate collaboration/networks
• Facilitate PEL arrangements
• Advise on other routes to accreditation
• Self-Evaluation
Good Luck
• Welcome the process
• Welcome QQI’s efforts to engage positively and constructively
• Higher standards across the board
• Focus on welfare of learners
• Opportunity for providers to reassess
• Opportunity for providers to ‘think outside the box’
QA Services
• www.qaservices.ie
• 087 2929793
"Build eLearning Capacity on a
Shoestring Budget" Seminar
How to build eLearning and training capacity
without expanding the training budget
Clare Education Centre, Ennis
Monday 17 November, 9.30am
(book on http://buildelearningcapacity.eventbrite.ie)
Attendee Questions