...to continuing Ofsted’s engagement with colleagues in each of the sectors and I hope to meet many of you soon. Final versions of the common inspection framework and handbooks Today...
Gill Jones, Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education, on our update of the early years inspection handbooks. Today, we published our updated education inspection framework (EIF) handbooks. In this...
Today, we published the statistics about our initial teacher education (ITE) inspections. This included the outcomes for FE and skills teacher training. You can view the statistics, and those from...
Today, we’ve launched a new early years blog, for everyone who works in the early years sector. We will use the new blog to help raise understanding of different types...
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, discusses this new area of our work. Today, we have published our new framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of the early...
...crucial knowledge in today’s world. Primary schools have had a legal responsibility to teach languages since 2014. The first cohort of pupils that should have studied languages throughout key stage...
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...