Quality Assurance
From LearningHearts
Ensuring quality of delivery can be challenging. Particularly where activities take place remotely and the ability to monitor and review is limited. Where little or no support is provided in an area it can reach a point where any provision is seen as beneficial regardless of quality. However, this can have significant impacts on learner outcomes. In addition, failure to address properly quality issues can have an impact on operating organisations reputations. This can affect the likelihood of future learner engagement and of supporters’ willingness to fund.
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Case Studies
ACRE Quality Standards (English/England)
Action with Communities in Rural England has 3 levels of standards covering 9 areas of organisational performance. The standard is peer assessed. A similar quality standard called Hallmark exists speciifcally for community centres. Please visit the ACRE website for more information http://www.acre.org.uk/our-work/the-acre-standards.
PQASSO (English/England)
PQASSO is a leading quality standard developed for the third sector by the third sector. It can be used by charities, social enterprises, community interest companies and community groups. Please visit the charities evaluation website for more information http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=42
National Accreditation Centre of CVET (Greece/Greek)
In Greece a QA has established in order to monitor and evaluate the whole continuing activities of the certified AE structures . The Body responsible is the National Accreditation Centre for CVET. Click here for more information
