Today, we’ve launched a new early years blog, for everyone who works in the early years sector. We will use the new blog to help raise understanding of different types...
...easily move out of sight because they’re absent from education for too much time, and too often it is used to try to avoid the legal requirements around excluding a...
...priority areas as highlighted in Ofsted’s Annual Report published earlier this month. We want to catch schools ‘before they fall’. We want to reduce workload, to use our evidence to...
...hard on a new common inspection framework, which will come into effect in September 2015. This will integrate the way we inspect early years education, schools and further education and...
...as a viable route into a career. Careers and inspection Our inspections recognise the importance of high-quality careers education – this is no different under the new education inspection framework....
...how young people considering apprenticeships can be helped into viable careers in growth industries. Given the importance of apprenticeships, it is encouraging to note that we are seeing a gradual...
...outstanding In September, we began inspecting outstanding-graded schools that were formerly exempt from routine inspection. These inspections will continue. Outstanding schools have been split into two groups: schools that were...
...doesn’t patronise them or knock their confidence. We need to pay attention to older children in primary school too, so they don’t start behind next year. Parents can play their...
...between year 10 in 2016 and year 11 in 2017 This model will be used to inform our discussions with local authorities and multi-academy trusts, and to ask questions in...
...support their career development and for those interested in working in the sector to see the range of job roles on offer. We will continue to develop our analysis to...