This post is now out of date. Please read our new post on inspection timescales which we published in June 2023. There’s been some speculation...
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...new approach in several schools this term, so we can see how they work in a live inspection environment. And we’re gathering the views of school leaders, teachers and inspectors...
...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...
...help schools improve and to provide constructive support. Short inspections are valuable. I’m confident that this new approach will help to minimise the burden on schools. You can keep...
...local areas and schools. Secondly, we play a role during our inspections of early years settings, schools and further education and skills provision. Our new education inspection framework (EIF), in...
...you for that but I’d rather talk to/look at/hear…’ This is especially true of early years data on entry and progress. The new approach is much more about observing and...
...list of 300 schools are also in the new list of 340. Of those that dropped out, two thirds no longer meet the criteria of losing at least 5 pupils...
...know about them, early on, is really important. A new report from the charity Education and Employers makes the point that aspirations, quite simply, come from exposure to the job....
...of their community and local economy. Many of the new apprenticeship providers that struggled to make reasonable progress had not sufficiently co-developed their curriculum with employers. I am, therefore, optimistic...