Earlier this month, we launched a public consultation on our new approach to inspecting education providers. This includes new toolkits for how we will inspect, and the introduction of report...
...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...
...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...
...published new polling with parents in England; it helps us to know if we’re doing our job properly. 95% of parents surveyed know Ofsted inspects schools. Of those who are...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...ready our new inspection framework for Autumn, the last few months have been exceptionally busy here at Ofsted too. So I’m with you in looking forward to a bit of...