Executive Officer
Executive Officer
The Independent Quality Assurance Agency (IQAA) invites applications for the position of Executive Officer in its Cape Town head office. IQAA is an independent, not-for-profit organization governed by a Board of seven members who have served in education, business and community affairs. It is a small organisation staffed by an Executive Director, an Executive Officer, part-time consultants, and 25 professional mentors, and provides quality assurance services to independent and other schools, NGOs, and other organisations in Southern Africa. Read more...
Ideas to Consider
School Improvement
The process of school improvement cannot be viewed as a stuttering sequence of disjointed activities. Rather, it must be introduced as an integral part of life and professional activities in the school.
~ St Benedict’s Prep School
Facts
Do not think of making a case for a particular point of view. Let us just have the cold-blooded facts.
~ Winston Churchill
Greatest of Faults
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Medicine, Law, Teaching
If surgery and the law were practised as privately as teaching, we would still treat most patients with leeches and dunk defendants in millponds.
~ Parker J Palmer
Crooked Stick
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
~ Montaigne
Quality of decisions
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. We need to respect that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that – sometimes – we’re better off that way.
~ Malcolm Gradwell
Confront your reality
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.
~ Jim Stockdale, quoted by Jim Collins
Largest room
What is the largest room in the world?
~ Room for improvement.
Failure and success
… until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.
~ Thomas Merton
Changing the mirror
Quod vides in speculo, si non placet, speculum non iuvat mutare.
If you look in a mirror and don’t like what you see, it doesn’t help to change the mirror.
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The Independent Quality Assurance Agency |
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 The Independent Quality Assurance Agency (IQAA) provides quality assurance and accreditation through evaluation of schools.
IQAA also encourages an attitude and atmosphere of constant internal self-evaluation in schools.
The IQAA is based in Cape Town, South Africa and operates throughout the Southern African region.
Although IQAA is an independent body, it has important relationships with schools, independent school bodies and Umalusi, the statutory organisation which monitors and improves the quality of general and further education and training in South Africa.
IQAA has its origin in the efforts of the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA), and its major operation is based on the independent school sector. IQAA is, however, available to provide quailty assurance of any school.
Each school evaluated, its pupils, staff, parents and community, are given complete respect and concern by the IQAA, especially in relation
to the school's own distinctive mission, ethos and aims.
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