Government weakens its random inspection of 'at risk' schools by HALF @NewsAtNESA

NESA (The NSW Education Standards Authority) is fulfilling it's promise to conduct at-risk, random inspections. Last year, they promised inspection of 26 schools (18 government, 4 independent and 4 systemic) This year they have announced that they will only target 13 schools, looking at two main areas:

• Child protection, anti-bullying and complaints/grievances
• Quality of teaching and student learning

I commend NESA on the selection of these annual priorities and the move into greater scruitiny over teaching and learning. It is important that for Australia to educate well for the next generation that the students are well taught and progess significantly in their learning. It is not good enough for schools to simply have students in class, we must teach them too!

NESA will randomly select 13 schools instead of 26 in 2017

See the NESA Update here: http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/about/news/official-notices/official-notices-detail/inspection-of-govt-and-non-govt-schools-selected-randomly-in-2017