...most often requested is listed on pages 10 and 11 of the Early years inspection handbook. But it is unlikely that an inspector will want to see all of these...
...I simply asked, 'Okay #SLT what's one thing you'll pledge to do to reduce your teachers' workload in the coming new year?’ It heartened me to see some excellent and...
...first time. We usually inspect a new provider within 3 years of it beginning to deliver education and training programmes. But, because of the large volume of these new apprenticeship...
Ofsted’s Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills, Paul Joyce, talks about what our new education inspection framework (EIF) means for further education and skills providers. As most of...
...previously exempt from routine inspection new schools awaiting their first inspection (including schools that have received a new URN since their last inspection) schools that have recently undergone a significant...
Amy Finch, Head of Strategic Evaluation, and Helen Matthews, Specialist Advisor, Initial Teacher Education, discuss the findings of our ITE research and why it’s the right time for a new...
...the probability that 2 different inspection teams would return the same judgement on each aspect, if each inspection consisted of asking a standard list of questions, each to be answered...
...we conduct these visits and are consulting on our proposed new arrangements. As it stands In September 2012, Ofsted introduced the judgement grade of requires improvement. Since 2013, we’ve carried...
...numerous blogs in response. Generally suggestions fell into two themes: (1) ‘give more time before inspecting’, and (2) ‘work with us’. Time to embed changes The need to give new...
...the Department for Education's White Paper is to give new leaders of challenging schools ‘inspection breaks’. New headteachers in schools judged to require improvement can already ask us to take...