In the early phase, during the 70s and 80s, there was strict central direction and control over schools, state-prescribed curriculums, external school inspections and detailed regulation, giving the Finnish government a strong grip on schools and teachers.
Under the Quality Review, the Education Bureau will conduct external school reviews to validate the School Self-evaluation of all pre-primary institutions.
The Quality Review aimed to adopt a two-pronged approach based on internal quality assurances undertaken by School Self-evaluations and external school reviews.
The reason for the Hong Kong Quality Review in adopting the two-pronged approach of internal quality assurance through the School Self-evaluation and the external school review becomes obvious.
In education, these include students' self-assessments, teachers' participatory notes on learning process, external school surveys, and observations made of teaching and learning situations.
We are going to try to prevent this by doing the NP in an external school facility and the assessment periods will be undertaken on different days.
But it also notes that without external inspectors schools could be constrained by the skills within their team and creating a peer review system that's sufficiently challenging can be difficult.
Certificates from corporate universities, being more focused on the sponsoring firm's needs, are less attractive to competitors.Many firms have now stopped paying to send managers to external business schools altogether.
Mr Simpson says that students should spend as long researching financial aid as they do their choice of school; particularly when it comes to external, non-school sources of money.
Interestingly, on the school level, it was found that the external factors, school choice, and parental pressure related to overall reading achievement differently in the Norwegian and Swedish samples.
