improvement of schools as well as ensuring services are user-focused and provide
value for money. School inspections should also encourage improvement of the
education system as a whole. The goal of the Styrian school inspections in Austria
is also very broadly described as supporting schools to constantly improve their
quality and to promote the educational effectiveness and quality of the individual
school, to ensure legal and administrative compliance and equivalence and comparability
of various educational provisions within the system. The expected effects of
the Dutch Inspectorate are more specifically described as improvement of schools
towards good education, where the standards in the inspection framework are used to
detail ‘good education’.