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...
...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...
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...
...shown work submitted by their apprentices. I check the quality and the new skills that they’ve acquired. I also look at how much progress they've made, comparing this to the...
...inspection framework, short inspections for good schools and further education and skills (FES) providers, and the first inspections to be carried out by our new Ofsted Inspectors. Next week also...
...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...
...uncertainty this summer, with the new English and mathematics GCSEs being taken for the first time, as well as the first set of new A-levels. While we know that the...