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In 2003 a number of UK medical schools began to work together to increase quality assurance activities in the area of assessment as part of the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP). UMAP is a collaborative item banking project seeking to build a quality assured written assessment item bank suitable for high-stakes examinations at ...
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
Ofsted completed 38 area-wide inspections on Send in the last year, MPs were told, with 12 councils found to be failing, 16 inconsistent and 12 positive.
However, as Ofsted stated in its 2013 PSHE report "the great majority of schools choose to teach it because it makes a major contribution to their statutory responsibilities to promote children and young people's personal and economic wellbeing; offer sex and relationships education; prepare pupils for adult life and provide a broad and ...
Ofsted's report also said education had "become fractured and fragmented for too many children". It found "a small number of schools" allowed children to be flexi-schooled.
Children were required to have a medical assessment to be eligible for this. [21] Some children were classified as uneducable, and were not required to attend school. [22] The 1970 Education (Handicapped Children) Act removed uneducable category, which allowed all disabled children to receive an education.
Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Territories, and Estyn, the schools inspection agency for Wales, apply the term special measures (Welsh: mesurau arbennig) [1] to schools under their jurisdictions when they consider the school has failed to provide an acceptable standard of teaching, has poor facilities, or otherwise fails to meet the minimum ...
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