...we conduct these visits and are consulting on our proposed new arrangements. As it stands In September 2012, Ofsted introduced the judgement grade of requires improvement. Since 2013, we’ve carried...
...help schools improve and to provide constructive support. Short inspections are valuable. I’m confident that this new approach will help to minimise the burden on schools. You can keep...
...local areas and schools. Secondly, we play a role during our inspections of early years settings, schools and further education and skills provision. Our new education inspection framework (EIF), in...
...you for that but I’d rather talk to/look at/hear…’ This is especially true of early years data on entry and progress. The new approach is much more about observing and...
...list of 300 schools are also in the new list of 340. Of those that dropped out, two thirds no longer meet the criteria of losing at least 5 pupils...
...know about them, early on, is really important. A new report from the charity Education and Employers makes the point that aspirations, quite simply, come from exposure to the job....
...of their community and local economy. Many of the new apprenticeship providers that struggled to make reasonable progress had not sufficiently co-developed their curriculum with employers. I am, therefore, optimistic...
...some had not achieved what they needed to yet. They had trained staff, thought about the best resources to use and had often bought new reading schemes and books. In...
...that was essential to pupils’ understanding of new material. Several schools paid lots of attention to building up pupils’ knowledge of substantive concepts, such as empire, tax, trade and invasion....
...we restarted. This meant that a typical good-rated school was likely to be inspected 5 or 6 terms later than it would have been. The new funding means that we...