Off-rolling: using data to see a fuller picture
...between year 10 in 2016 and year 11 in 2017 This model will be used to inform our discussions with local authorities and multi-academy trusts, and to ask questions in...
schools
Deprivation, ethnicity and school inspection judgements
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Jason Bradbury and Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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data and Insight, leadership, schools
...moved on considerably in schools across the country in the last decade and a half since I started inspecting. While in the early 2000s chair-chucking in schools in special measures...
Building confidence, encouraging aspiration
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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careers guidance, schools
...training or vocational education should all be available. For young people who have special educational needs or disabilities, another very important element should be included: preparation for independence, or supported...
Schools are different. Inspections are different.
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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common inspection framework, inspection, OfstedMyths
There's been a lot of talk recently in the media about algorithms. Facebook has come under scrutiny for their use of algorithms to target users with specific adverts or content. Uber and Deliveroo are using them to support their business model. Public bodies such as HMRC and the Home Office are using algorithmic analysis to …
Knife crime survey – Mike Sheridan, Regional Director for London
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Mike Sheridan, Posted on:
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further education and skills, pupil referral units, schools
...on the dangers of carrying a weapon. Schools, colleges and others who work with young people have an absolutely vital role to play in protecting children from knife crime and...
Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
Changes to the school inspection window
...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...
Dan Lambert, Her Majesty’s Inspector, on an ungraded inspection
...to find out about their training and its quality. I ask them if they know what to do if they have concerns about pupils. I talk to pupils to see...
Ofsted’s new arrangements for short inspections
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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common inspection framework, inspection, schools
From January 2018, we will convert a short inspection to a section 5 inspection (normally within 48 hours) if there are serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education.
Sarah Hubbard, Her Majesty's Inspector, and National Lead for English, reflects on the English curriculum
Sarah Hubbard, HMI and National Lead for English, on the English curriculum and the findings of Ofsted's recent research into it.