Paul Joyce, our Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills (FES), on the changes we have made to our FES handbook. Today, we published our updated education inspection framework (EIF)...
...context that we’ve published our updated inspection handbooks today. The changes cover how we will inspect early years providers, schools, further education and skills providers and non-association independent schools. Elsewhere,...
Sean Harford HMI, our National Director for Education, talks about the first inspections under the EIF and the trends we’re seeing so far. Today, we’ve published our first set of...
...and among school leaders and teachers recently. But as Ofsted-commissioned research published today suggests, different people have different definitions of what off-rolling is. At times this leads to confusion. While...
...some of the practices we see in schools today have emerged. If you’re set a performance target you do what you need to do to meet it, I certainly do....
...her time at Ofsted, the curriculum is the real substance of education. We should be talking about it. Today, we’ve published Ofsted’s latest contribution to the discussion in the form...
...schools are demonstrably having an impact on obesity levels and what schools might learn from each other in this area. This research has been published today and we think it...
...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...
...We've put a lot of work into this research so far, and today’s commentary from Amanda reveals some of the preliminary findings. Inspectors visited 40 schools to gather evidence for...
...the school remaining good. I explain my decision not to convert today to a full inspection to the headteacher. She looks pleased and leaves the room smiling. I gather and...