Roles and responsibilities

The primary responsibility for assuring and improving quality is with colleges and providers, and the staff who work in them. They are responsible for the delivery of teaching, learning and support for individuals who participate in the wide range of programmes and learning opportunities on offer. They are responsible, too, for regularly assessing the effectiveness of provision and for using the findings of self-assessment as the basis for continuous improvement.¹⁰ Their focus needs to be on achieving or maintaining excellence.

This section explains:

• the roles and responsibilities of learners and employers
• the roles and responsibilities of all those working in the further education system
• the roles and responsibilities of the national partners
• how the national partners work in partnership and
• what national partners have agreed to do to manage the delivery of the Improvement Strategy