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This is a ground-breaking history of school and college inspection in Wales. With contributions from two former chief inspectors, two former HMI and leading historians, it offers an authoritative account of how the inspectorate has changed over time. Since their beginnings in 1839, HMI have steered a course between being instruments of the state and independent influencers of education policy and practice. They have been much-valued catalysts for improvement in schools and colleges, and have had a key role in promoting the teaching of the Welsh language, history and culture. This book is written for anyone concerned with the history of education in Wales, the history of accountability in education, with approaches to school improvement, and the extent to which HMI have influenced or been at odds with education policy making. At a time when the inspectorate itself is under review, this is a timely reminder of its wide-ranging services.

Notes on contributors
Preface
Glossary
Introduction - Ann Keane
1 The origins and development of the inspectorate in Wales, 1839–1907 - Russell Grigg
2 Owen Edwards, the Welsh Department and the curriculum, 1907–25 - Ann Keane
3 The inspectorate between 1925 and 1970: responses and reactions - Alun Morgan
4 Inspecting and reporting in a changing educational climate, 1970–92 - Roy James
5 Challenge and transition: the inspectorate in Wales, 1992–2020 - Barry Norris
6 Women in the inspectorate in Wales - Sian Rhiannon Williams
7 Devolution, education policy and inspection in Wales: a policy analysis - David Egan
8 Inspection in Wales and internationally: some comparisons - Russell Grigg and Ann Keane
The future - Ann Keane
Appendix I
The statutory basis of the inspectorate
Appendix II
List of Wales senior or chief inspectors
Appendix III
List of key milestones
Selected bibliography
Index

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786839428
Langue	English

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WATCHDOGS OR VISIONARIES?

The Contributors, 2022
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Glossary
Introduction
Ann Keane
1 Origins and Development of the Inspectorate in Wales, 1839-1907
Russell Grigg
2 Owen Edwards, the Welsh Department and the School Curriculum, 1907-1925
Ann Keane
3 The Inspectorate in Wales between 1925 and 1970: Responses and Reactions
Alun Morgan
4 Inspecting and Reporting in a Changing Educational Climate, 1970-1992
Roy James
5 Challenge and Transition: The Inspectorate in Wales, 1992-2020
Barry Norris
6 Women in the Inspectorate in Wales
Sian Rhiannon Williams
7 Devolution, Education Policy and Inspection in Wales: A Policy Analysis
David Egan
8 Inspection in Wales and Internationally: Some Comparisons
Russell Grigg and Ann Keane
The Future
Ann Keane
Appendix I: The Statutory Basis of the Inspectorate
Appendix II: List of Senior or Chief Inspectors in Wales
Appendix III: List of Key Milestones
Select Bibliography
Notes
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
David Egan
David is Emeritus Professor of Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His career has moved from teaching history in a secondary school to leading a large University School of Education and developing a profile as a policy researcher focused upon the education system in Wales since devolution.
Russell Grigg
Russell is an education inspector for the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates, having previously worked for Estyn and Ofsted. His research interests are in the history of education.
Roy James
Roy taught mathematics in secondary schools before joining HMI (Wales) in 1970. Since retiring as chief inspector in 1997, he has undertaken research and consultancy work and has been External Professor at the University of Glamorgan and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff.
Ann Keane
Ann taught in secondary, further and higher education sectors, in Wales and England, before joining HMI (Wales) in 1984. Since her retirement as chief inspector in 2015, she has been a Welsh Government Board member and has undertaken consultancy and research work.
Alun Morgan
Alun is a native of Merthyr Tydfil and a graduate of UCW Swansea. He has taught in every phase of education other than primary and was an HMI in Wales from 1983 to 2011.
Barry Norris
Barry started his career in education as an English and drama teacher. He was an HMI in Wales from 1991 to 2020 and led many inspections across pre-16 and post-16 sectors. He was Estyn s lead officer for inspection policy until his retirement in 2020 and lead officer for quality assurance from 2010 to 2018.
Sian Rhiannon Williams
A former Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Sian has published on various aspects of social and women s history in Wales. She is co-editor of the Gender Studies in Wales series (UWP) and Welsh language editor of Llafur . She is active in Archif Menywod Cymru/Women s Archive of Wales and the Purple Plaques Group.
PREFACE
I am grateful to those authors who have contributed chapters to this history of the education inspectorate in Wales, not only for their individual chapters but also for their generous support in the many contributions they have made to the process of the book s production by means of discussion, re-writing and the joint editing of each other s work, and including in particular the contributions of Russell Grigg and Roy James to the drafting of the introduction. Feedback from reviewers on the initial typescript submitted to the University of Wales Press has also proved to be invaluable in the preparation of a final draft.
I would like to acknowledge the willing support we have received from Estyn, the Wales inspectorate, notably from former Her Majesty s Chief Inspector (HMCI) Meilyr Rowlands, who made the historical files of the inspectorate available to us in addition to sharing his thinking about the shape of the future. Thanks too to his successor, Claire Morgan, for her continuing support and to Michaela Benjamin, Executive Assistant to HMCI, for her unfailing help in arranging access to the inspectorate s files and hunting down relevant documents. Librarians at several libraries and archives have been of notable assistance to us including those at the National Library of Wales, the Welsh Government Library (in which the old Welsh Department of the Board of Education collection of reports is stored) and the National Archive. There are several other individuals to include in our list of acknowledgements because of the valuable information they have provided to us as authors and the oral, and occasionally written, contributions they have made to the production of this book. They are as follows: retired HMI Sam J. Adams, R. Alun Charles, Gareth Wyn Jones, Robert O. Taylor, the late Dorothy Selleck, Peter C. Webb and the late M. J. F. (Peter) Wynn. Thanks are also due to other retired HMI who responded anonymously to the questionnaires featured in Chapter 6 . Their readiness to assist is much appreciated. Two academic authors have also been generous with their advice: Emeritus Professor David Reynolds offered valuable early support and challenge to the group; and Emeritus Professor Hazel Walford Davies, author of several publications about O. M. Edwards, has offered helpful support and advice. I would also like to thank the Welsh Government for the assistance they have provided to enable the production of this book and to record my gratitude to William H. Howells for his prompt preparation of a comprehensive index.
The chapters in this volume draw on a study of both primary and secondary sources; notable among primary sources are those archives held by Estyn, the National Library of Wales, the Welsh Government Library and the National Archive at Kew. The chapters also draw on the authors direct engagement with the practices of inspecting the provision of education and training in Wales (including initial teacher education).
Ann Keane
GLOSSARY
Aide-memoire A series of questions to support interviews on inspection, including surveys.
Assistant Inspector Historically, there had been other grades of assistants to HMI, such as sub-inspectors and junior inspectors before they were subsumed into the grade of assistant inspector (AI) in 1912. After the Second World War, Martin Roseveare (as Senior Chief Inspector in England) abolished the rank of AI and existing AI became HMI. AI were paid around half the salary of HMI.
Associate Assessors Teachers and managers from further education institutions (FEI) who were invited to work as inspectors in FEI inspections from the mid-1990s. Later known as peer inspectors.
Board of Education In 1899 the Board of Education replaced the Education Department, Department of Education and Science and the Charity Commission as the British government s administrative body for education. In 1944 the Board became the Ministry of Education and then the Department of Education and Science (1964), Department for Education (1992), Department for Education and Employment (1995), Department of Education and Skills (2001), Department for Children, Schools and Families (2007) and Department for Education (2010).
Central Welsh Board This was created in 1896 as a national body responsible for inspection and examination arrangements in secondary schools created under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act (1889). It was succeeded by the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) after the Second World War.
Chief Inspector The chief inspector (CI) has been responsible for directing the work of the inspectorate in Wales, including: after 1992, the administration of the Office of Her Majesty s Inspectorate (OHMCI Wales); having oversight of the educational standards and provision in Wales; and liaising with/reporting to government.
Chief Woman Inspector This post existed from 1905 in England until 1938 when the position ceased, as part of a process of integrating women inspectors into the mainstream structure of the inspectorate. Women inspectors in Wales were answerable both to the chief woman inspector and the Wales chief inspector.
Committee of Council on Education (CCE) The CCE was established in 1839 as the British government s administrative body in education and was responsible for appointing early HMI. Its last official meeting was in 1880 although publications in its name continued being issued until 1899.
District Inspector HMI with responsibility for the oversight of inspection in and information about education and training in specified districts.
Divisional Inspector Divisional inspectors were appointed in Wales between 1920 and 1928 to take responsibility for inspection and inspectors in the Welsh Department at a time when the Welsh Department s permanent secretary took over the CI s administrative d