...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...statistics would show – understandably so. These are new inspections, so interest in the grade profile is natural. Firstly, the proportion of all schools that have been judged good or...
...junior, infant or lower middle school, you should be aware that the new EIF includes a reading deep dive. The reading deep dive is a mandatory part of the new...
...carry out inspections safely, taking account of the latest public health advice and the specific precautions taken in each school. There’s now a new section setting out how our inspections...
...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...
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, discusses this new area of our work. Today, we have published our new framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of the early...