Abstract: . . .  Establish the QIA as the authoritative voice on quality improvement in the sector • Learn from good practice in quality improvement in adjacent sectors and from our international partners • Put in place a mechanism for quality assuring services available to the sector in the commercial market. What will happen to existing improvement services and programmes? The following programmes are transferring to the QIA from April 2006: • Standards Unit teaching . . .
. . .  improvement and strategic change, bring greater coherence to quality improvement products and services and align the contributions of other national agencies such as LSC, Inspectorates, and so on. The strategy will create a vision of quality which has the support of the sector and, by integrating activities in support of national priorities, it will speed up the pace of improvement . It will help to align the business planning processes of partners, including . . .
. . .  sector are also directly involved in the detailed work to develop the strategy. The Strategy will be signed off by Ministers and published in June 2006. How can I find out more? The QIA will be publishing its corporate plan and a prospectus of its services in April 2006. Meanwhile, for more information, please visit www.qia.org.uk . The LSC has published Planning for Success which can be found at www.lsc.gov.uk in the reading room.  . . .
. . .  risks to the delivery of high quality provision, based on evaluation of performance and the capacity of colleges and education and training organisations to maintain and improve quality . The LSC will withdraw from directly supporting colleges and education and training organisations to improve quality as this support will be the responsibility of the QIA. The LSC will cease to fund provision which is persistently unsatisfactory. (Please refer to . . .
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