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Ofsted's spring conferences

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 24 April 2018 - Categories: curriculum, inspection
Children and teachers looking at a notebook

Inspection is above all about human judgement. Therefore, the quality of Ofsted’s work and our value as a force for improvement depend absolutely on the knowledge and expertise of our inspectors.

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Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 23 April 2018 - Categories: inspection, schools

Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.

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Changes to the school inspection window

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 13 April 2018 - Categories: inspection, schools

...preparing for next term’s inspections and finalising a small number of updates to our section 8 and section 5 inspection handbooks, which were published today. These updates bring some changes...

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