• Consultation
• Documents Published by the Inspectorate
• Inspection
• Inspection Reports
• Survey Theme Reports
• Colleges and Training Organisations

Providing Inspection Services for Department of Education, Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure and Department for Employment & Learning.

Becoming an Inspector

New inspectors are recruited through public advertisement in the press.  Those who become inspectors have appropriate academic and professional qualifications and invariably have substantial teaching and/or training experience in schools, colleges of further and higher education, youth work, organisations of higher education or in industrial/commercial training.  Many of them have experience at senior levels in education or training; some have held senior posts in industry and commerce.  Normally, Inspectors will have experience in more than one organisation.  New Inspectors serve a two year probationary period during which they follow an appropriate programme of induction and staff development.  On-going staff development continues throughout an Inspector’s service.