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.
Outstanding rated schools are not inspected routinely. Her Majesty's Inspector (HMI) Dan Lambert explains why, and what happens when we do inspect them.
This blog talks about some of the early findings from our pilot inspections under the draft education inspection framework that we are currently consulting on. This framework is scheduled to take effect from September 2019.
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...multi-academy trusts (MATs). As HMCI set out, during the summer term we visited a small number of MATs to trial aspects of a new approach. We’ve learnt from those trials...
The Stage, theatre newspaper and website, recently published a poll asking readers whether or not they agreed with Amanda Spielman’s statement which they reported as 'arts courses promote unrealistic career prospects to potential students'.
...easier to groom. Gangs are taking advantage of this by, for example, getting children to take a knife into school or to break another rule which gets them excluded. This...
...or madrassah-style education. What is frustrating to us is that all these groups could choose to operate legally. Some providers are malicious rather than misinformed or misguided. Some are preying...
...(testing) for a number of months alongside the old site. The new inspection reports site uses up-to-date technology and is compatible with non-desktop devices. The content is more streamlined and...