Quality assurance for school development: guiding principles for policy development on quality assurance in school education

This report sets out eight principles developed by the ET2020 Working Group on Schools to guide policy-making related to quality assurance and, in particular, to ensure a productive synergy of external and internal quality assurance mechanisms. These principles are further illustrated with successful and emerging, or potential new, policy development examples from countries and other European stakeholder organisations. The document concludes with a general discussion of some key challenges and measures to support future policy action.