Monitoring dental education programmes
Targeted monitoring
Risk Based Monitoring Activity
In 2021/22 regular monitoring of DCP programmes was undertaken with education providers and awarding organisations. We quality assure education providers to ensure that the Standards for Education are being met. In contrast, we quality assure awarding organisations to ensure that they are effectively quality managing their education providers and can assure us that the Standards for Education are met.
Monitoring DCP Education Provider Programmes
Dental Hygiene and Therapy (HT) | Dental Technology (DT) | Dental Nursing (DN) |
2 programmes | 2 programmes | 2 programmes |
Three of the six programmes were subject to follow up monitoring as an action from the previous year’s quality assurance activity. The remaining three programmes were monitored due to time elapsed since the last QA activity we conducted with them.
The outcomes of the risk-based monitoring activity are shown in the table below. Of the 6 programmes monitored in the 2021-2022 period, we determined that four programmes would be inspected, with the remaining two to be subject to regular monitoring. The inspections for the four programmes will take place in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Dental Hygiene and Therapy (HT) | Dental Technology (DT) | Dental Nursing (DN) | |
Regular Monitoring | 2 programmes | - | - |
Inspection | - | 2 programmes | 2 programmes |
Monitoring Awarding Organisations
In the 2021-2022 academic year, the monitoring of organisations awarding qualifications was conducted separately to education providers. We utilised a revised questionnaire which was more appropriate and relevant for these providers.
Between April and June 2022, we monitored six awarding organisations.
Dental Technology (DT) | Dental Nursing (DN) |
2 awarding organisations | 4 awarding organisations |
The outcomes of monitoring awarding organisations will be reported in next year’s Review of Education (2022-2023), once all stages of the process are complete.
Review of Education 2021-2022
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Standards of Education
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Reviewing new programme submissions Open Drop
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Monitoring dental education programmes
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Inspections
- Performance against Individual Standards and Requirements Open Drop
- Performance against Standard 1 – Protecting patients (Requirements 1-8) Open Drop
- Performance against Standard 2 – Quality evaluation and review of the programme (Requirements 9-12) Open Drop
- Performance against Standard 3 – Student assessment (Requirements 13-21) Open Drop
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Quality Assurance of Specialty Education Open Drop
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Specialty curricula review Open Drop
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Recruiting inspectors (education associates) Open Drop
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Student Engagement work Open Drop
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Learning outcomes review Open Drop
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Development plans for 2022/23 and beyond Open Drop