What is education? Guest lecture 2

Our second guest lecturer for our what is education module was Russell Grigg.Russell spoke to us about Estyn. Estyn is the organisation which inspects quaility and standards in education in Wales. Estyn inspects:

• Nursery, primary, secondary, independent and special schools
• Pupil refferal units
• Further education
• Adult community learning
• Local authority education services for children and young people
• Teacher education and training
• Work based learning
• Careers and companies
• Offender learning

Estyn also:

• Provide advice to the Welsh Assembly Government on quality and standards 

• Promote the spread of good practice in education and training

Estyn then provides reports on instatutions and themtaic reports.
The judgements Estyn make in their reports are:

• Excellent
• Good
• Adequate
• Unsatisfactory

Although I found this lecutre hard to take in, in places, I knew how important the subject was. I liked that we are having the oppourtunity to learn about important topics in education such as inspections. I also liked that Russell did encourage us to interact through asking us questions about our own views and opinions on the topic.