Improving school attendance
...absence. Resources Our report on securing good attendance and tackling persistent absence includes examples of good practice for schools. We have also published a webinar on attendance. The Department for...
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What you need to know about the September 2026 updates to education inspections
Posted by:
Lee Owston, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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early years, further education and skills, initial teacher education, inspection, schools
...GOV.UK for the full list of updates. How we are reflecting updated government guidance Our toolkits are grounded in the statutory and non-statutory guidance from the Department for Education. This...
Teacher well-being and workload survey: Interim findings
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Belita Scott, HMI and Dr Ivana Vidakovic, Posted on:
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research and evaluation, teachers
...policies and procedures, so as to avoid placing unnecessary burdens on them. In addition, our myth-busting campaign – for schools and for further education and skills (FES) providers – is...
Minor updates to further education and skills inspection handbook
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Paul Joyce, Deputy Director, Further Education and Skills, Posted on:
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apprenticeships, further education and skills
...that are re-brokered for performance reasons, and are being treated as a new 16 to 19 academy, will be regarded from the point of re-brokerage as a new provider for...
What Dan Owen, Her Majesty’s Inspector, looks at on a short inspection
...with governors, staff and pupils and look at a wide variety of documents. Ahead of this particular inspection I’d identified that the majority of pupils are eligible for free school...
Summer round-up
...talked about Ofsted being a vehicle for improvement. Our current HMCI, Amanda Spielman, carries on that baton and that is the driving force of Ofsted today. I had the pleasure...
Birthday celebration ... and life after levels
Posted by:
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
common inspection framework, OfstedMyths, schools
...pupils best, to support further achievement. As I said at the conference, it’s for schools to take control, make more creative use of curriculums freedoms, and crucially, do what is...
Inspection and the use of grade predictions
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
common inspection framework, inspection, schools
...for most and disappointment for some. But whatever emotions they stir, we know that exam grades are only a partial reflection of what happens in a school. That’s why inspection...
Ofsted's spring conferences
Posted by:
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
curriculum, inspection
...quality of Ofsted’s work and our value as a force for improvement depend absolutely on the knowledge and expertise of our inspectors. Sometimes, the public debate gets stuck at the...
Too many pupils will suffer if we delay inspection reform
...concerns of their members, but who also provide constructive suggestions for how we improve our current practice. Rather than rallying for the politically impossible they have pushed us to make...