The Quality Assurance Department (QAD) was set by law under the Education Act of 2006 “to implement every inspection, evaluation and external audit of educational programmes and services, with the aim of ensuring that the curriculum is being followed in every school, that good practices are being promoted and that quality is ensured in all the education system and also to evaluate and assess the operation and the results of Colleges and schools and of any person teaching and working therein” (Part II Article 9 para.2 e/f).

The QAD, which is a department within the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education (DQSE), is still in its early stages and one of the main responsibilities is to set up a system of external review, in other words an inspectorate, to see that schools do provide a quality education.  A thorough review of the existing system and of past inspection experiences is therefore being undertaken.

All details are given in the following link and in the sources given there.

Malta Summary Profile, published 3 March 2010 (pdf 63kb)