The FE Quality Illusion
Why What We Measure Isn’t What Learners Experience
“In Further Education, we’ve become very good at measuring quality and surprisingly poor at recognising it.”
It’s a difficult statement to sit with. But for many working across the sector, it will feel uncomfortably familiar, because when we step back and look beyond the metrics, beyond the reports, and beyond the inspection outcomes, a question begins to emerge:
Does what we measure truly reflect what learners experience?
