Chair of the "Accreditation UK" Accreditation Scheme Advisory Committee (ASAC)
British Council
Westminster
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- May 2015
- Apply by:
- 17 March 2015
Job overview
The "Accreditation UK" Accreditation Scheme is a quality assurance scheme for over 560 centres providing English language teaching (ELT) for some 600,000 overseas students per year in private language schools and state colleges and universities. Each centre is fully inspected once every four years with additional spot check inspections as required.
Over 250 inspection reports are moderated each year by the Accreditation Scheme Advisory Committee (ASAC). The Committee consists of 15 professionals with experience of the Scheme, ELT in the UK, the education and welfare of international students or educational evaluation.
The ASAC reports through its Chair to the Accreditation Scheme Executive Board (EB).
For more information, see www.britishcouncil.org/education/accreditation
The Chair is responsible for
- chairing all ASAC meetings (currently six part-day meetings per year, in London). This involves reading some 30-60 inspection reports (of about 15 pages) in preparation for each meeting
- attending Accreditation Scheme Board meetings (currently four per year, usually one in Manchester and the rest in London) and contributing to policy development.
Please send a full CV with a covering letter describing how your skills and experience match those described above.
Applications must be received by 23:59 on 17 March and via our jobs portal: https://jobs.britishcouncil.org
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