In this blog, we take you through the changes we’ve made to our guidance on registering and inspecting school-based provision to reflect how we are seeing early years or childcare...
...213 staff from FES providers responded to our questionnaire about occupational well-being in June and July this year. The link to the teacher well-being questionnaire was sent to a random...
...are to progress in this subject and go on to university or into the world of work?’ Well-ordered curriculums We know too that effective teachers also think carefully about the...
...favourites. That weekend, the top topic (getting 285 votes) was: How can we avoid Ofsted making extra work for teachers? Of course, I was very keen to hear thoughts on...
...to them about timings and what to expect. I tried to put them at ease and remind them not to do anything special for me – to keep to normal...
...subject-specific curriculums in schools across England. We also want to see how the debate might relate to inspection as we head towards the education inspection framework. First off, I want...
...provide some reassurance as to why 2019 is the right time to do it. The first thing to remember is that this framework was originally planned to be launched last...
...on the evidence collected. Here I describe all the elements of a recent inspection to give a sense of what’s involved. Initial planning telephone call I'm due to inspect a...
...children spent learning remotely. This is because their parents simply had less time to help them. Thinking towards the summer term Leaders have been working hard to understand what children...
...views about how we might make inspection more supportive – as well as calls for us to stop making changes and allow people time to get used to current frameworks....