...We have now completed all 6 full inspections of ECF programmes delivered by lead providers. These are the first full inspections to take place under the new ECF and NPQ...
Recruiting, training and retaining high-quality teachers and leaders is fundamentally important. It forms the foundation for giving pupils the very best experience in education. In March, we published our new...
Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, writes about the importance of reading – and the need to help struggling readers as they start secondary school. The new school year has...
...we restarted. This meant that a typical good-rated school was likely to be inspected 5 or 6 terms later than it would have been. The new funding means that we...
...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...
...inspections for good schools/providers. At events I attend, and also on Twitter, a few themes keep cropping up, so, I’ve put together 10 points below outlining what these new inspections...
This post is now out of date.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...