Schools & Quality Assurance | Hedley Shaw

Hedley has been a significant driver of quality improvement in education for many years, assessing for the British Quality Foundation’s UK Quality Award since 1994 and acting as secretary to their Education and Training Group since 1995. He is in the core group of the European Quality Foundation’s Education Community of Practice and has visited Barcelona & Istanbul to further the work of quality improvement. He strongly advocates and supports models of self-evaluation in education, having worked with the first group of schools in the UK to use the Excellence Model for self-evaluation and subsequently collaborating on developing support materials. He is a Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, supporting the development of their Post Graduate “Quality Management’ programme. Recent publications include 'Quality Management in Education' published by Hobsons/CRAC.

As Head of Professional Development for Croydon LEA, he tutors and co-ordinates a comprehensive management development programme in collaboration with several universities. He has led successful pilot programmes for developing Teachers’ Bursaries, Early Professional Development, Teachers’ International Professional Development Programmes and Best Practice Research Scholarships. He has been an accredited school inspector (Ofsted) since 1994, an accredited assessor for schools’ ‘Performance Management’ systems and an examiner, assessor and moderator for a number of examination boards. Hedley is the LEA’s lead officer for their Excellence in Cities programme and acts as the Critical Friend to the Croydon Networked Learning Community – a National College for School Leadership funded pilot programme of schools collaborating on action-based research.