...skills providers. Second, we’ve been testing new shorter, frequent inspections for good schools and further education providers. But that’s not all. We’re also busy selecting and training a whole new...
...before they are introduced. So I’m not surprised to hear some calling for us to take more time and delay the introduction of the new inspection framework. I want to...
I hope everyone enjoyed their summer holidays and that you are all now comfortably settling into the new academic year. This is often a time for introducing fresh ways of...
...As such, I thought this was a good time to put some more flesh on how we’d like to inspect under the new framework. On-site preparation Currently, inspectors carry out...
In our new school inspection handbook, we outline a quality of education (QE) judgement. Lots of the discussion about the QE judgement has been around what ‘intent’ means. We have...
From September 2019, Ofsted will inspect using a new framework. The education inspection framework sets out how we will inspect state schools, further education and skills providers, non-association independent schools...
Mike Sheridan, our Regional Director for London, talks about our new education inspection framework and how we’ll inspect the curriculum in the smallest schools. Small schools are unique institutions. They...
...part. It can do this by offering courses and apprenticeships that give students relevant qualifications in new and expanding industries, both in their locality and across England. Since the funding...
...handbooks. We wanted to give colleges and other providers time to absorb the changes as we start our gradual return to routine inspection. New provider monitoring visits (NPMVs) will continue...
...extensive research into the importance of teaching phonics until children can decode speedily and automatically. Pupils who struggle to decode unfamiliar words quickly fall behind their peers and struggle to...