Ofsted's webinars for schools - spring season
Ofsted's webinars for schools - spring season
Lee Owston and Jonathan Keay invite you to hear directly from Ofsted on school inspection policy.
Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities who have fallen behind with reading
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Lee Owston, Acting National Director Education, Posted on:
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reading, SEND, special educational needs
This blogpost focuses on pupils with SEND who are not reading fluently.
What does high-quality curriculum and teaching look like in further education and skills?
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Paul Joyce, Deputy Director, Further Education and Skills, Posted on:
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curriculum, further education and skills
Our Annual Report 2021/22 showed a broadly positive picture for the further education and skills sector. 80% of providers are good or outstanding. Most of the sector is providing high-quality education for learners and apprentices, despite the pandemic and …
Ofsted's 2023 priorities for schools and further education and skills
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Lee Owston, Acting National Director Education, Posted on:
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further education and skills, schools, teachers
2023 is already shaping up to be another busy year for schools and further education (FE) and skills providers. While none of us can quite predict what might be around the corner, our Annual Report, published at the end of …
Inspecting the initial stages of the early career framework and national professional qualifications
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Helen Matthews, Senior HMI for Teacher Development, Posted on:
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professional development, teacher training, teachers
Recruiting, training and retaining high-quality teachers and leaders is fundamentally important. It forms the foundation for giving pupils the very best experience in education. In March, we published our new framework for inspecting lead providers of the early career framework …
Inspection outcomes for further education and skills (FE and skills) initial teacher education programmes in the current ITE inspection cycle
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Helen Matthews, Senior HMI for Teacher Development, Posted on:
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further education and skills, initial teacher education, ITE, teacher training
Today, we published the statistics about our initial teacher education (ITE) inspections. This included the outcomes for FE and skills teacher training. You can view the statistics, and those from previous years, here. We have carried out 14 inspections of …
Education for prisoners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
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Maria Navarro HMI and Rebecca Clare SHMI, Posted on:
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Education in prisons, further education and skills, Prisons
This blog sets out some of the findings from our year of enhanced focus on the quality of education in prisons.
A new early years blog
Today, we’ve launched a new early years blog, for everyone who works in the early years sector. We will use the new blog to help raise understanding of different types of early years and childcare providers, as well as bust …
Ofsted webinars for schools – responses to questions and new webinars
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Christopher Russell, National Director Education, Posted on:
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curriculum, deep dives, education inspection framework, governors, inspection, teachers
First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who attended or viewed our schools webinar series earlier this year. The recordings of these sessions are available on YouTube and the slides have been published on our SlideShare. These sessions looked at: …
Thousands of year 7s struggle with reading
Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, writes about the importance of reading – and the need to help struggling readers as they start secondary school. The new school year has begun in England, and so have the usual calls to …
What next for further education and skills initial teacher education inspections?
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Helen Matthews, Senior HMI for Teacher Development, Posted on:
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further education and skills, inspection, teacher training, teachers
Helen Matthews, our Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector (HMI) for Teacher Development, clarifies how and when Ofsted will inspect further education and skills (FES) teacher training programmes through the initial teacher education (ITE) framework. As part of our ITE inspection framework, …