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High quality and efficient learning
Quality enhancement approaches
66.
Quality enhancement will underpin everything the College does. Our activities will be driven by the
core principles of Education Scotland’s National Framework of how well learners are progressing
and achieving high quality learning; how well learners are engaged in their learning and the wider
community of the college; and how well the College is led.
67.
The College initiated a quality review process in November 2013 to engage with curriculum and
service staff to have a regional strategy for Quality Learning and Teaching Enhancement in place
for roll-out from the 2014-15 academic year. A key priority of the College for 2014-17 is to have a
quality enhancement ethos underpinned by effective quality systems and processes, and built in
partnership with staff, students and stakeholders. Significant progress on this was made through
the self-evaluation process in 2013-14 which was led by the senior management team with active
participation from cross-college curriculum and services staff, students and employers.
68. we develop our strategies for self-evaluation with a continued focus on quality assurance and
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enhancement, we will build on strengths identified in recent Education Scotland review reports for
the Ayrshire region which highlighted a range of initiatives which demonstrated a culture of high
quality and efficient learning. These included the promotion of learners’ wider achievement, learner
engagement, engaging learners in portfolio review, and self evaluation.
69.
The Quality Enhancement directorate is working in partnership with the ICT team as progress is
made on developing a single MIS system in order that it supports the generation of consistent
regional reports on enrolm [