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Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) - english information

http://www.qia.org.uk/

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The agency is a non-departmental public body and the successor to the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). It also hosts some of the resources of the former Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), other ALI- resources are now available from Ofsted. The role of the QIA is to work across the learning and skills sector to improve performance. The agency conducts research, funds programmes, develops an improvement strategy for the further education sector and offers an Excellence Gateway with good practice examples.

Keywords

further education; adult education; quality of education; lifelong learning; research; vocational qualification; educational programme; organization;