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Section 66 of The Basic Education Act 2013: Powers of the Quality Assurance and Standards Officers

    

(1) The Quality and Assurance officers shall facilitate compliance with standards by promoting a collegial and collective approach to quality assurance.
(2) Education Standards and Quality Assurance Council and Quality Assurance Officers shall provide appropriate incentives for voluntary compliance with the standards and quality assurance in basic education.
(3) Subject to subsections (1) and (2) a Quality Assurance and Standards Officers may-
(a) at any time enter any basic education and training institution with or without notice to ensure compliance with education standards and regulations
(b) require any person responsible for the management of a basic educational institution or teacher or employee-
(i) to produce for his or her quality review any time table syllabus, or record book, material or document;
(ii) to furnish the Quality Assurance and Standards Officer with such information relating to the teaching or the management of the basic education institution;
(c) require by order in writing, the attendance before him or her any person who appears to be acquainted with the facts or circumstances of the case.
(d) take such photographs or video recording as the Quality Assurance and Standards Officer deems necessary of the premises and persons reasonably believed to be acquainted with the fact or the circumstances of the case.
(2) An officer appointed under this section shall have power to recommend temporary suspension of operations of the institutions to the County Education Board for a specific period until the basic standards are met.
(3) A Quality Assurance and Standards Officer may make recommendations to the Teachers Service Commission and County Education Board for necessary
action.
(4) The head, institutional managers, directors, heads or principals shall allow access to all parts and records of the institution.
(5) On being so requested by an officer appointed under this section, the head principal or any other person responsible for the school shall place at the disposal of the officer all the facilities, records, accounts, notebooks, examination scripts and other materials belonging to the school that the officer may reasonably require for the purpose of the inspection of the school or the inspection or audit of its accounts.
(6) In this section, “school” shall include any part of the school and any building used in connection with the school, including workshops, dormitories, kitchens, sanatoria, hostels, ancillary buildings and any other buildings on the site of the school.

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