Looking back over the latest seven-year inspections cycle, Meilyr Rowlands – Wales’s chief inspector – said Welsh secondary schools were increasingly “taking ownership” of their own improvement and sharing expertise and best practice with each other.
“There’s been a shift in education in Wales towards greater collaboration,” he stated. “This is most clearly seen in how a new curriculum is being developed with the involvement of the profession.
“There has also been a change in how school improvement and staff development are now increasingly based on school-to-school working and on consortia of local authorities working together. Overall, there has been a noticeable shift towards a ‘self-improving system’.”
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