Quality Assurance in Ministerial Education

The Church of England is committed to maintaining and developing the quality of the initial training it offers its ordinands.  Theological education and training is offered by training institutions which have been recognised by the
House of Bishops.  The training institutions are subject to the quality assurance and enhancement framework of the Church, which includes regular inspection.  

In the Church's quality assurance work, we:

  • check the quality of education and formation being offered to the ministers of the future
  • help training institutions to enhance what they offer

The Church of England publishes its inspection reports on ministerial training institutions. 

Every training institution, both Church of England and ecumenical, is fully inspected once during each 6-year cycle in line with the published programme of inspections.


Follow the links below to read the reports of:

The Baptist Union of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain - reports will be published as inspections take place

Resources:

Quality assurance handbook June 2012 - the comprehensive resource for institutions preparing to be inspected and for inspectors

Celebrating success and addressing weakness: self-evaluation and periodic external review, a model for quality assurance and enhancement in ministerial education. This report was approved by the four sponsoring churches in 2010-11 and implemented from 2012. The main documents that institutions need to use are the programme self-evaluation report and the institution self-evaluation report, as revised at March 2013.