Whole Organisation Review

S7 Colleges all run Self Assessment Panels in the Autumn term to scrutinise and finalise the outcomes of their Self Assessment Reports. These normally take place in mid-late October and consist of panels of internal leadership teams - and sometimes corporation members - listening over the course of a day or more to presentations from curricular and cross-college areas.

  Typically these meetings will be considering either a representative sample of areas that make up the complete SAR, or, in some cases, might hear only from areas where there is any doubt over the provisional grading that the area has suggested. These meetings take the form of discussion and debate, weighing and testing the evidence and hearing from area leaders to determine an accurate self assessment grading.

 S7 Whole Organisation Reviews therefore are a very mobile, active, paper-lite process that provides an additional external consultant / critical friend to these internal Self Assessment panels. The purpose of these external advisers is to provide an external perspective that is able to challenge internal assumptions, reflect back impressions received from the evidence presented and to provide a level of robustness and rigour to the process as a result. Interventions and suggestions made by the external peer reviewer are absorbed in an active way into the process with their recommendations fast-tracked straight into the Development Plans that follow on from these Self Assessment Panel meetings.