...for social distancing. They stayed in the room for the whole day, while small groups of senior leaders, teachers and learners joined them for discussions – around 9 meetings over...
...judgement following inspection. Providers use overall effectiveness judgements to give reassurance to parents and to apply for funding from local authorities. In March, we announced that graded inspections of some...
...expect, when we inspect. So from today, we’re publishing a series of videos featuring our Regional Director for London, Mike Sheridan and our Deputy Director for Schools, Joanna Hall. The...
As the academic year comes to a close, we'd like to say thank you to all those involved with schools, early years and further education for your hard work over...
Michael Wardle HMI, Ofsted’s subject lead for languages, discusses our language subject inspections. Languages are an essential part of a broad, balanced curriculum. Not only do they provide an opportunity...
...of schemes of work that are developed by subject specialists. Ofsted does not consider it necessary for schools to design their curriculums themselves. Whatever it is you do, it hasn’t...
...webinar is available on YouTube for anyone who might have missed the live sessions. We also publish the slides from the sessions on our SlideShare channel. Following these webinars, we've...
...action, then we can decide to bring forward an inspection of the school or retain the information for the school’s next inspection. This year, we have retained the information from...
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...
...have the chance to use our application programming interfaces (APIs). The driving force for the new website was to make it simpler to use, with clearer design and content, and...