Requirements and Guidelines for School Administrators and Principals
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Quality Assurance Audits follow the following sequence:
1.
Stakeholders Pre-Meeting.
The audits commence with a meeting of the key
stakeholders (Ministry of Education (MOE), National Training Agency (NTA)/TVET
Council and Industry Representatives). During the meeting the auditors and
stakeholders will discuss and have matters related to the Caribbean Vocational
Qualification (CVQ*) clarified. The audit objectives will be presented and the audit
schedule confirmed.
2. The audit at the school or institution has five main features:
(a) Opening Meeting.
At each school/institution the audit commences with an
opening meeting. In this meeting a register is taken of the individuals present,
audit schedules are presented and the objectives and procedure clarified.
(b) The Head of Institution Self-Audit.
The Head of Institution and/or an internal
committee judges the compliance status to the audit criteria, indicating the
sources of evidence used to arrive at the judgment with a view to determining
the institutions’ compliance rate from his/her perspective. This is followed by
an audit sampling of the evidence to include budgets, internal and external
verification reports, lesson plan observation logs, teacher qualifications,
maintenance plans and assessment records. This data may be subsequently
compared with the auditor’s findings, having assessed the evidences
presented against CXC®’s standards.
(c) Site Inspection.
The school grounds are inspected with specific emphasis
on the workspaces used to train and assess the candidates for certification.
The site inspection/walk-through of the facilities allows the auditor to
have first-hand exposure to the work spaces assigned to the occupational
areas that were completed at the school. The walk-through is intended to
ensure that the institution has remained compliant and/or to determine if
recommendations to improve compliance tabled by the Facilities Auditor and
the CXC® Quality Assurance Auditor were implemented. Criteria given specific
attention during the walk-through include occupational health and safety
provision, adequacy of equipment, adequacy and layout of work space and
signage.
