Quality assurance
Quality assurance and quality management represent a systemic effort in Romania, institutionally controlled. Therefore, the institutional capacity building was equally important as the empowerment of multiple actors involved, their active participation and support.
In the school education sub-system (from pre-primary education to upper secondary education inclusively) the quality improvement driven model is based on a support system, based on the coordinated and coherent actions undertaken at national, regional and local level.
The evaluation of the education system is carried out by several entities, and their input and object of assessment very diverse.
The evaluation of the education system is carried out by several entities, and their input and object of assessment very diverse.
The Government of the Republic of Macedonia, in accordance with its Programme for Education, is making continuing efforts for improving the quality of education through curriculum modernisation, continuing training of teachers, introduction of contemporary teaching and learning methods, development of clear standards for monitoring and evaluation of all entities involved in the education process and through facilitation of personal and professional career development of every individual participating in the education process.
This chapter describes quality assurance and evaluation at the different levels of Luxembourg’s education system according to the following definitions provided by Eurypedia:
On 24 November 2008, the Minister of Education and Science approved the Concept for Quality Assurance in Formal Education. The purpose of the Concept is to provide a conceptual framework for political and social arrangements regarding the understanding of education quality and methods for quality assurance in formal education, as well as to create preconditions for harmonisation of the quality assurance policy in education.
Quality development and quality assurance in the education sector aim to record the quality of education and to make continual improvements. Instruments and measures of quality development and quality assurance are being used at various levels of the education system: at the levels of the system, institutionally at individual schools, or at the individual level of teachers or learners.
- to help schools in monitoring efficiency and efficacy indicators of their educational offers and undertaking improvement, in order to foster their autonomy;
- to provide school administration with useful information to address education policies towards the cultural, social and economic growth of the country and to plan support actions for schools;
- to foster transparency and social accountability;
- to create the conditions to be able to evaluate school managers.