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Alex Jones, Director, Insights and Research

Alex Jones is Ofsted's Director, Insights and Research

Testing our proposals to improve education inspections

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Earlier this month, we launched a public consultation on our new approach to inspecting education providers. This includes new toolkits for how we will inspect, and the introduction of report cards. We want to hear from parents, carers, learners and …

Teachers’ professional development remains a work in progress

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The ongoing professional development of teachers is fundamentally important for education quality, and has been shown to improve teacher satisfaction and retention. Teaching practice based on an up-to-date, and deep understanding of relevant evidence is a hallmark of a high-quality …

Asking teachers what they think: Ofsted’s recent Teacher Tapp survey results

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Chris Jones, our Director, Strategy and Engagement, and Alex Jones, our Director, Insights and Research, on what a recent survey of teachers found out about inspection, Ofsted’s research and evaluation work, and other hot topics. We recently commissioned Teacher Tapp …