The Quality Improvement Agency ( QIA ) was a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government whose remit was to support those institutions that provide education, but which are not schools or universities. This covers a broad range of institutions, ranging from further education colleges, prison education to workplace training and various other types of education and training.
4-743: The QIA was created in March 2006 from the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). The majority of the assets and liabilities of the Quality Improvement Agency were transferred to the Learning and Skills Improvement Service , a new not for profit, sector owned improvement body for the Further Education sector on 1 October 2008. There was one chair of trustees during the lifetime of QIA, Sir Geoffrey Holland . The QIA had two chief executives - Andrew Thomson and Dr Kate Anderson. Article noting
8-605: The end of March 2006 its functions were divided into the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) and its trading subsidiary, Inspire Learning, better known by its brand name the Centre for Excellence in Leadership was spun-out. Inspire Leadership and QIA were re-absorbed into the same corporate entity, the Learning and Skills Improvement Service on 1 October 2008. Before November 2000 it
12-598: The passing of the QIA http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090504182734/lsis.org.uk/aboutus/welcome.aspx This article about an organisation in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Learning and Skills Development Agency The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) was a publicly funded body in the United Kingdom that supported further education in England . At
16-779: Was known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA). FEDA was established in 1995 to support the further education community in England, as a result of a merger between the Further Education Unit and the Staff College. The role of the LSDA was to support post-16 education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (but not in Scotland , where there is a different organisational framework for education). In Wales
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