Quality assurance
1 Quality assurance
A senior secondary awarding body or a foundation secondary awarding body must—
ensure that it has processes in place to develop courses designed to be normally undertaken in the school years 11 and 12 that are accredited by the Authority under Part 4.4 of the Act; and
have arrangements in place to ensure access and equality of opportunity to, while safeguarding the integrity of, the qualification; and
ensure that the registered qualification is awarded, conferred or issued in an accurate and timely manner; and
have policies, criteria and standards for the curriculum and assessments of the registered qualification; and
oversee the delivery of the conduct of assessments for the registered qualification; and
have quality assurance, review and evaluation processes in place that enable—
annual evaluation of delivery of the course; and
proper evaluation of the curriculum and assessments; and
have assessment frameworks, policies, criteria and standards in relation to teaching, learning and assessment that are valid, reliable and fair.
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.