Presentation given by Dr Anjalee Prakash, CEO, Learning Links Foundation on July 14,2011 at WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT (www.worldeducationsummit.net) in the School Education Track: CREATING EXCELLENCE IN SCHOOL EDUCATION: FUNDAMENTALS FOR POLICy MAKERS, PRACTITIONERS AND EDUCATIONISTS

1. Imperatives of Quality for Schools Dr. Anjlee Prakash 1

3. Estimated 45 percent of education expenditure on elementary education

5. Equal opportunity

6. Quality Assurance “Explore possibilities of setting up an independent, accreditation body in the area of school education...” ShriKapilSabil. Hon Min of HRD CBSE already taken the lead to set up an accreditation system for affiliated CBSE schools that will establish a level of acceptable quality for all accredited institutions while respecting the unique missions of the institutions involved.

7. What is Quality Assurance? Quality assurance is achieved through an accreditation process Ensuring education institutions meet and maintain minimum standards of quality and integrity regarding academics, administration and related services. Quality Accreditation is achieved through an assessment process By adopting a total quality approach for continuous improvement for satisfaction of all stakeholders. Quality Assurance (QA) can be simply defined as a system to support performance according to standards. It implies a systematic way of establishing and maintaining quality improvement activities as an integral and sustainable part of systems Accreditation What gets measured… gets done…

8. Framework of Quality Accreditation supported by an approach to Assessment

12. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution William A. Foster

13. Development of Quality Tools EQFI School Assessment Help schools define parameters of excellence through: Supporting the development of vision, mission, values Identify challenges and define objectives to meet the challenges List Short Term & Long Term plans List performance indicators Identify targets against performance indicators

14. SAMPLE KRA 9

15. Development of process Example: process setting

16. THANK YOU Any questions? 11 11 11