Catalogue description Records created or inherited by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service

Quality Improvement Agency, 2006-2008

The Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) was created in March 2006 from the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). It was a non-departmental public body of the government whose remit was to support those institutions that provide education, but which are not schools or universities (a broad range of institutions including further education colleges, prison education, workplace training and various other types of education and training). In June 2008 the QIA merged with the Centre for Excellence in Leadership to become the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.

Learning and Skills Improvement Service, 2008-

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) was created in June 2008 when the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) merged with the Centre for Excellence in Leadership to become a new not for profit, sector owned improvement body for the Further Education sector. Its role is to support leadership development and excellence in the sector. The LSIS is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).