The Reform And Experience Of The British Educational Inspection System

Establishing and strengthening educational inspection system is of great importance to the progress of education and improvement of teaching quality. Attaching importance to educational inspection has become an important standard of modernization of educational management. Studying British educational inspection system is very important for perfecting our system. This paper focuses on reform of British educational inspection system, especially on the one in 1990's. This thesis is composed of the preface and four chapters. The first chapter is on the birth and development of the British educational inspection system mainly on the background, process and features of it. The second chapter is on the reform of the British educational inspection in the 90's. It analyzes the background, process, contents and measures of the reform in 90's from the aspects of political motivation, the reform in the authority of Thatcherism, overall quality management and problems in the inspection system and summarizes the process, content, measures and the effects of the reform. The third chapter is about the present situation of British educational system and mainly expounds the aims and content of inspection, the performing mechanism, the subject performers and analysis the features, experience and problems of the British educational inspection system. The fourth chapter is about what revelation and warning our Chinese educational inspection system can get from the British educational inspection system. Aiming at the existing problems in China's inspection system, the paper puts forward that the awareness about the importance of educational inspection be increased, the inspection system suitable for the reform of the new curriculum be established, the law and regulations concerning the educational inspection be strengthened and perfected, the scientific evaluating system be enhanced and the quality of educational inspectors be heightened.