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A paper on quality assurance in schools presented at an international conference by Sandro Spiteri, senior executive at the University’s Quality Assurance Unit, received the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change Best Paper Award.
Spiteri presented the paper, entitled ‘From inspection of schools to quality assurance in schools. External quality assurance for school improvement in a post-colonial micro-state: Malta’ at the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement in Glasgow.
The paper discussed the development of the panoptical inspection paradigm in 19th-century Malta, and how it remained active even after Independence due to the coloniality of inspectorial power. It then discussed the rise of the quality assurance paradigm that since the 1970s has gradually overtaken the old one.
Spiteri was also invited to become an associate of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, which is part of Glasgow University. The centre aims to promote more equitable education systems via theory-driven, applied research.