ccqi.org.ukMuch of the Centre for Creative Quality Improvement’s work is focused on helping providers in the Learning and Skills sector understand the following corner-stone questions:Every system has an impact. Do you know what impact you’re having? Is it the one you want?Too many providers make fundamental errors in quality improvement by chasing solutions to symptoms, and/or using symptoms to determine their effectiveness. Neither of these will guarantee improvement, and both have the strong potential to introduce yet more bureaucracy into the work of managers and front-line staff. The issues at their root can only be crisply identified by exploring negative, missing or unintended impact on learning, and improvement can only be understood in terms of positive impact on learning.Too many providers also allow themselves to be steered by misperceptions of what Ofsted looks for during inspection.At the Centre for Creative Quality Improvement (CCQI), we help providers find the right answers to the right questions, and demystify the expectations of inspection.CCQI was formed in 2010 by Tony Davis and draws on a flexible network of former full-time lead inspectors from the Adult Learning Inspectorate and Ofsted, and some of the FE sector’s leading thinkers from the Policy Consortium.CCQI’s areas of interest centre on:• Teaching, learning and assessment• Quality systems and self assessment• Lesson observationTony has worked in the FE & Skills sector for 30 years as a teacher, manager, inspector, good-practice publisher and consultant. ccqi.org.uk

Film credits include: 'ArtsWork' for the Adult Learning Inspectorate - a 60-minute documentary about how outstanding teaching changes learners' lives. 'Excellence in the arts: Beyond the comfort zone' for Ofsted - a 40-minute documentary about how to run an outstanding college department.Director and presenter for six short programmes on e-learning, commissioned by the Learning & Skills Improvement Service and the Learning & Skills CouncilDirected 11 programmes for the Association of Colleges on Shared Services in the FE college sector - just how hard is it to get groups of competing colleges to work together and share their most sensitive data?

Main passion is for Chamberjazz and Chamberdance music for saxophone – available to hear and buy at tonydavis.com. Recent performances can be heard on YouTube: search for Tony Davis Saxophone.Also written musicals and music for documentaries and TV programmes, including the feature film ‘Lamb of God’ and two series of the music BAFTA nominated animation ‘Animal Shelf’.

Full-time lead inspector with specific responsibility for managing the Ofsted Good Practice Database. Learning and Skills Improvement Service - Board memberLearning and Skills Council - RARPA steering group

Solo recitalist. Also performed with the Northern Saxophone Quartet, the Whole Sky Quartet, the National Festival Orchestra Big Band, The Tribune Octet, and soloist with the British National Saxophone Choir.Solosit at all of the world saxophone congresses from 1997 to 2009, in: Valencia, Montreal, Minneapolis, Ljubljana and Bangkok. Recent performances can be heard on YouTube: search for Tony Davis Saxophone.

Responsible for leading and contributing to inspections of colleges, work-based learning providers and Jobcentre plus providers. 2005 - 2006: manager of the Preparing for inspection events2006 - 2007: manager of the Excalibur Good Practice Database

My career at Wakefield College began as a part-time music teacher, progressed through Director of Music, and finally Head of the Arts Faculty.