There has been a big highlight lately on the elimination of Quality Mark of the teaching industry. It was opposed by a lot of organisations and the same organisations felt that there will be serious repercussion on the number of quality teachers who will seek placement in teaching institutions all over the country. Many feels that removing the Quality Mark will lead to decline of the quality of education in schools and will also have negative bearing on the students' safety.
It was the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and Department of Education who jointly conceptualized the Quality Mark. This initiative was implemented ten years ago and it set the minimum requirements for teaching agencies and the local administrative bodies in charge of the process of recruitment (i.e. interview procedures, vetting placing staff in learning institutions, etc.) of supply of educators as well as other school staff.
Parents and concerned groups are increasingly worried because although there has been an initiation of developing a new audit scheme and despite a dialogue held in the early weeks of April 2013, a replacement scheme is yet to be approved. Becca Morgan, the director of a supply firm expressed her concern regarding the matter noting that this kind of "retrograde step" places the teaching industry and the students in a situation where they are open to abuse of corrupt "'cowboy' businesses." Concerned parents expressed agreement with Morgan's statement.
Nonetheless, the status quo of teaching agencies is not really a matter of great worry. As a transitional phase, a number of these agencies are predisposed to remain with the old set of standards until such time that they can develop their own and effectively implement the same. Some teaching agencies are optimistic about the situation treating it as a chance for them to improve and create their own standards of qualification for the purposes of sustaining the quality of educators they install in the country's educational institutions as well as to continually develop the same. It certainly involves a lot of effort but these agencies are determined to preserve the trust of the learning institutions, who are their clients, in their capability of providing them with educators with good moral character and excellent credentials.
The fact remains, however, that this would prompt schools to be more discriminating in their selection of supply teachers as substandard teaching agencies are likely to proliferate due to the abolishment of the Quality Mark. With children's safety and quality of education on the line, it requires the combined efforts of schools and teaching agencies to minimise the effect of the Quality Mark abolishment.
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