...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...
...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...
...all pupils. Principle 2: Rigorous ‘keep-up’ reduces ‘catch-up’ later If schools make sure that all pupils keep up with phonics from Reception and Year 1, only new arrivals may need...
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...
...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...