Busting myths on Ofsted inspections

...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...
...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...
...this some schools are using zero-tolerance approaches in an overly rigid way. We have seen examples of teenage girls being excluded for carrying a knife for the purposes of self-harm....
...modern facilities that we expect for our children. Often, they are badly maintained, unsafe and squalid, with poor fire safety and inadequate hygiene facilities. All children deserve a good education...