Quality Assurance through Inspections and the Inspector's Role
Quality Assurance through Inspections and the Inspector's Role

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I will argue for the need to carry out inspections in Language schools for quality control and ongoing evaluation and assessment that will finally lead to ongoing school development. "Few, if any, researchers deny the value of external evaluation [...] - above all there has to be a systematic attempt to fit external and internal evaluation together and use them as a coherent planned whole." J MacBeath Language schools which are members or would like to become members of an association whose main goal is to provide quality language services have to undergo inspections at regular intervals in order to prove that they meet the quality standards set by the respective association. Examples of associations are QUEST (the Romanian Association for Quality Language Services), EAQUALS (the European Association for Quality Language Services), OPTIMA (the Bulgarian Association for Quality Language Services), QLS (the Greek Association of Quality Language Schools), etc.

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