Historic Schools Restoration Project

During April 2008 IQAA evaluated five public schools, originally mission schools, that are part of the Historic Schools Restoration Project.  They are: Adams College (KZN); Healdtown and St Matthews (E Cape); Lemana High School (Limpopo); and Tiger Kloof (Vryburg).  The official launch took place on 24 May at a function at Healdtown, addressed by President Thabo Mbeki and others including distinguished former Healdtonians.

 

IQAA Services

School Quality Assurance Evaluation (School in the Mirror)
School Improvement Plan Implementation Evaluation Service
School Governance Evaluation
Opinion Survey Service

Training Workshops 2012

2012 Training Workshops, venues, dates and time.
GAUTENG:       Kingsmead College, Monday and Tuesday, 30 and 31 January 2012
KZN:                 Maris Stella School, Tuesday and Wednesday, 7 and 8 February 2012
WCape:            St George’s Grammar School, Thursday and Friday, 9 and 10 February 2012
The first day begins at 9.30am until 4.00pm.
The second day begins at 8.30 until 2.30pm
  

 

Applications for evaluations

All schools that would like to be included on the IQAA bookings calendar for evaluations in 2012 are encouraged to make application as soon as possible in order to secure a favourable date for their evaluations. Booking forms will be sent to schools on application. Dates are arranged on a first come, first served basis.
(For details see Contact Us page.)

The Independent Quality Assurance Agency (IQAA) provides quality assurance 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 and independent school bodies.

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.

    Ideas to Consider

    Crooked Stick

    To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

    ~ Montaigne

    Failure and success

    … until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

    ~ Thomas Merton

    Largest room

    What is the largest room in the world?

    ~ Room for improvement.

    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

    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

    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

    Greatest of Faults

    The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

    ~ Thomas Carlyle

    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.

    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

    Your Own Self

    There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.  So you have to begin there, not on other people.  That comes afterwards when you’ve worked on your own corner.

    - Aldous Huxley

    Facts

    Do not think of making a case for a particular point of view.  Let us just have the cold-blooded facts.

    ~ Winston Churchill