Sean Harford HMI, National Director for Education, talks about Ofsted’s curriculum transition arrangements and announces an extension. Our new framework puts the curriculum front and centre of inspection. We absolutely...
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...hold and many of you had to develop new plans and find new ways of delivering your curriculum. As we returned to full-time education from September 2020, many of you...
...last few months talking to leadership teams around the country about the development of the new framework – and listening to what they have to say. We’ve spoken to many,...
...may be carried out to newly merged providers or other providers being treated as a new provider. Ofsted will also carry out these visits to review new full-time college provision...
...we’ve now got our new way of working ready to go in the autumn term. How will a new ungraded inspection begin? As you would expect, the day before the...
...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...
...curriculum development further down their list of priorities. However, this is a concern at both primary and secondary level. Leaders at 11 of the 14 primary schools we visited said...
...accountability system, will usually try and close loopholes. An example of this was the removal of the ECDL from the list of approved qualifications. The ECDL no longer counts towards...
...itself in patchy attendance, disruptive behaviour, difficult relationships with peers and poor attainment. But this is not an exhaustive list. Let’s face it, if you are sofa-surfing to avoid a...