Monitoring

We monitor education programmes for three main reasons:

To identify any new risks or issues that may impact upon successful programme delivery, against the Standards, both in the case of individual training providers and across the wider sector
To review progress against actions from previous inspections
To determine inspection activity for the following academic year.

We carry out several types of monitoring, such as:

General monitoring: An annual quality assurance review of a programme to ensure ongoing compliance with the Standards for Education. The information is used to identify any significant risks faced by a programme and decide whether additional education quality assurance activity is required.

Additional monitoring: This is carried out where an outcome cannot be decided upon through general monitoring activity only, or where a concern has been raised about a programme by a third party.

Progress monitoring: This is carried out as follows:

To check in with new or modified programmes
To follow up the progress of inspection actions
To check in with inactive approved programmes.

You can find the Monitoring provider guidance here.