Gill Jones, our Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education, on reading in secondary schools and supporting weaker readers. Since we have been back to inspecting, many of you have asked us about how we’re inspecting reading in secondary schools. You …
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, invites you to attend online and hear directly from Ofsted. We have now been back inspecting schools routinely since September 2021. As part of our work, we have been listening carefully to feedback …
Heather Fearn and Jonathan Keay, Her Majesty’s Inspectors from Ofsted’s curriculum team, discuss some key points about what primary subject leaders (especially small primary schools) can expect from deep dives. This blog builds on our previous blog about the simple …
Chris Jones, Director, Corporate Strategy, discusses the findings from our spring term monitoring visits.
Sean Harford HMI, our National Director for Education, explains the changes to our school inspection handbooks.
Paul Joyce, our Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills, on why good quality careers education is so important.
Sean Harford HMI, our National Director for Education, talks about the first inspections under the EIF and the trends we’re seeing so far.
Mike Sheridan, our Regional Director for London, talks about our new education inspection framework and how we’ll inspect the curriculum in the smallest schools.
Sean Harford, Ofsted's National Director of Education, on our new inspection framework and the summer break.
Over the last few months, we’ve tested new questions with parents, schools and inspectors. We based the new set of questions on what parents want to know and can answer, what inspectors want to know and what schools find useful. Getting this balance right is important.