A belated happy new year – I hope you all managed to have some rest at the end of last year, and like me, are fully refreshed for this new...
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...
...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...
...hope you find this information useful and I look forward to working with you in this new academic year. You can also keep up to date with Ofsted news...
...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...
...develop a valid concept of quality of education, which has informed what we inspect. We also use research to test new methodologies, such as the deep-dive approach we are using...
...the course of the year. It has been a busy year with the launch of our new common inspection framework for schools, early years and further education and skills (FES)...
...of education?'. From September, we’ll be implementing a new inspection framework that we believe has greater validity, with a clearer underlying concept of education quality, grounded in the evidence on...