...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...