...a full level 2 qualification. There is a real danger that young people aiming to step onto the career ladder are discovering that the vital bottom rungs simply do not...
...will have profound consequences for the thousands of children who attend these institutions. What is an unregistered school? An unregistered school is an educational establishment that meets the legal definition...
...before. This initial contact is crucial. It helps to establish a relationship with the headteacher ahead of the inspection. I explain the process, making sure that I’m clear and precise....
...questions on what parents want to know and can answer, what inspectors want to know and what schools find useful. Getting this balance right is important. New questions to support...
...each question, so we’ve done that today. Parents of children at maintained schools and academies who completed Parent View said that they’d recommend the school to another parent (86%), that...
...think about the drivers affecting the school: What’s recruitment like – very challenging or less so – and what is the staff turnover? What do parents complain to the school...
...that the school is still good without the need to convert to a full inspection. But in almost a third of short inspections this year, inspectors decided that they needed...
...autumn visits, we found many examples of excellent work, but also saw the challenges that leaders in particular had to deal with. Leaders in schools that were part of multi-academy...
...we anticipate that the Department for Education will commission Ofsted to carry out a small number of inspections of providers that are not currently ‘known’ to us, but that are...
...Our inspectors found that assessment tended to be very limited in languages. In addition, the transition from primary to secondary was underdeveloped. The government’s ambition is that 90% of pupils...