Quality Enhancement and Development (QED) Project

The Quality Enhancement and Development Project (QED), was initiated by learndirect scotland in November 2006, and designed to review and develop appropaches to quality in learndirect scotland's branded learning centres (BLCs).

The first phase (from November 06 to March 07) involved consultative sessions with staff in BLCs, background research, and a review of other quality standards.  This then suggested the next steps for protecting and enhancing the learndirect scotland brand.

A number of recommendations have emerged from consultation and during the first phase.  They are as follows:

• Increased use of self evaluation process.
• Emphasis on continuous quality improvement rather than 3 year renewal.
• The renewal process will no longer be referred to as ‘renewal’ and will involve a different set of arrangements and processes, which reflect the need for ongoing self evaluation, supported by visits from learndirect scotland as appropriate.  Further details are available here.

To download the executive summary of QED project (CLICK HERE)