SQA Annual Review 2006-07

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Welcome to our Review of 2006–07. It’s been another exciting and productive year for us, and this Review highlights our significant progress and achievements.

I was always confident that the detailed processes and plans we introduced to monitor our performance and services were working well. This was confirmed by Audit Scotland, who completed a detailed review of our performance management arrangements during the year. It highlighted our ever growing maturity as an
organisation with a distinctive role to play at the heart of Scotland’s education and training system. But, of course, we can never be complacent, and there is still much to do as we develop and modernise our services to support Scotland’s people and economy.

I was delighted to welcome Dr Janet Brown as our Chief Executive in March. Janet brings a wealth of industrial and business experience to SQA, and is relishing the challenges of working with the Board and leading the staff to move our development plans forward. Tom Drake OBE took on the role of Interim Chief Executive following the departure of our previous Chief Executive, and I would like to pass on the Board’s sincere thanks to Tom for his leadership and direction over the transition period.

There are many challenges and opportunities ahead for SQA — the Curriculum for Excellence, essential modernisation and funding our work through commercial and international activities, to name a few — but we are in great shape to move these forward.

My confidence is down to our staff and all in the Scottish education and training community who work with us. Thank you all for your ongoing commitment, energy and dedication.

Please enjoy reading this Review — it is an impressive record of a successful year.