...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...
...place around every 4 years. We have also changed and improved the way we communicate our objectives for an inspection. With the Ofsted myth-buster, blogs, videos, webinars, newsletters, roadshows, other...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...two years since I took over as Ofsted’s National Director for Education. Much has changed in the meantime. In the last year alone we have welcomed a new chief inspector...
...all pupils. Principle 2: Rigorous ‘keep-up’ reduces ‘catch-up’ later If schools make sure that all pupils keep up with phonics from Reception and Year 1, only new arrivals may need...
...used for things such as internal training or apprentice salaries. New model of apprenticeships emerging Alongside the levy, the structure of apprenticeships is changing. Until now apprenticeship frameworks have developed...