Quality and Support Agency - State Institute for Schools

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The Quality and Support Agency - State Institute for Schools (QUA-LiS NRW) is the central institution for educational services in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports the schools in their education and training mandate, advises and supports the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MSB) and promotes further training for the common good in North Rhine-Westphalia.

QUA-LiS NRW acts in coordination with the MSB and the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW), which is responsible for further training for the common good. The institute is in dialogue with the district governments, the local school authorities, the institutions for teacher training and further education and the providers of further education for the common good in the state.

By working with commissions, in particular by using experienced teachers who are seconded from their schools to the QUA-LiS NRW for a limited period of time, the institute ensures the indispensable close practical relevance to the schools in the state. In the area of ​​further education geared to the common good, close cooperation with the sponsors ensures a needs-based offer.

The QUA-LiS NRW cooperates project-related and a. with universities, foundations, churches, associations, the economy as well as the quality agencies and educational institutes of the other federal states. It also sees itself as a forum and hub for technical and political discourses on school education and further training aimed at the common good. The institute also offers conference rooms, a library, a cafeteria and a guest house.

QUA-LiS NRW is located in Soest .

tasks

QUA-LiS NRW supports those involved in the school system and in further training aimed at the common good in North Rhine-Westphalia. Her tasks include:

  • the development and updating of curricula and corresponding support materials for all school levels and types of school,
  • the development of all central exams as well as the organization and evaluation of the central examinations and learning progress surveys,
  • the further development of the binding reference framework for school quality in NRW and the associated online support portal,
  • Support offers and training formats for teaching and learning in digital change, e.g. Partly in consultation with the media consultancy NRW,
  • the support of schools in cross-cutting issues of school and lesson development (including education in schools, intercultural school development, full-time and individual support),
  • the observation and analysis of school-related developments in science and research and the possible transfer into school practice,
  • the support with procedures for educational monitoring and the conception of support and monitoring systems for dealing with results from school achievement studies and research,
  • the development and implementation of offers for the professionalization and qualification of pedagogical professions, especially for managers in schools and school supervision as well as in teacher training and further education,
  • the development of concepts and offers for the qualification and the cross-provider quality development and assurance in the field of further education oriented towards the common good.

history

The QUA-LiS NRW was rebuilt on December 1st, 2013. The previous institute (State Institute for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia) was dissolved by the then state government at the end of 2006.

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