...everyone with an interest is given the chance to contribute their views. I look forward to hearing what people have to say. When we introduced the common inspection framework in...
...have clarified details about who inspectors need to meet with to inspect governance at the school. Under ‘effectiveness of leadership and management’, we have added a reference to inspectors having...
We’re all clear that Ofsted’s role is to inspect and report on the quality of education and training. The feedback from an inspection is designed to help further education and...
...was the sign-off of the latest update to the school inspection handbook. These specifically take account of the changes we are making, from January, to how we deliver short inspections...
...have the chance to use our application programming interfaces (APIs). The driving force for the new website was to make it simpler to use, with clearer design and content, and...
...When we take a decision to go into the property and investigate, we are not like a usual school inspection team. We must have reasonable cause to believe that an...
...National Director, Education, addressed teachers’ workload in a blog in September 2017. Since then, staff have been telling inspectors how much leaders and managers take workload into account when developing...
...courses provided to learners. Further to this, despite the increase in providers, the number of apprentices continues to fall. In 2019, there were about 1,900 further education and skills providers,...
...As these inspections only looked into one subject, inspectors were not expected to evaluate or infer the quality of education in the school. This is because the education inspection framework...
...dedicated teachers can once again help them to progress in their learning and develop valuable personal and social skills. However, for a small number of pupils and parents in England,...