...– the lucrative industry that sells schools consultation into ‘what Ofsted wants’ and ‘preparation for Ofsted’ seems to thrive. ‘Save 5 hours staff time a day’ they promise. ‘Dramatic results...
...up to use this new tool on over 8,000 inspections annually. As you probably know, inspectors currently capture evidence on handwritten forms. These forms are collated by the lead inspector...
...As these inspections only looked into one subject, inspectors were not expected to evaluate or infer the quality of education in the school. This is because the education inspection framework...
...set out in ‘Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings’ a useful supplement to the EYFS. It should offer additional insight into what constitutes good practice in relation...
Since joining Ofsted as the Deputy Director for Data and Insight team and its Chief Statistician in January, I have been looking at how data is currently used to support...
...routine inspection in the same way that schools do. We will, of course, retain the right to carry out inspections without notice. In addition to this, the final version of...
...complex tasks in their working memory. Novices need more help to gradually build their schemata on a topic and to link it to others. Expertise here is not primarily about...
...We are therefore asking lead inspectors to be sensitive in selecting deep dives in these schools. When inspectors choose the set of three-to-five deep dives with school leaders they will...
...that schools have for their education. This inspection focus on curriculum is based on the insight from research into human cognition: if pupils don’t succeed in learning what we hoped...
Hopefully, those of you who keep in touch with my updates here and my Twitter activity will have noticed that one of my main preoccupations in the last year has...