...carried out monitoring inspections to schools currently graded inadequate or requires improvement. We carried out most of these visits remotely, though on a few occasions we did go into schools....
...inspectors). There are 2 layers to this: Inspection judgement inter-rater reliability – do 2 inspectors come to the same judgement of a provider? Inspection method inter-rater reliability – do 2...
Mike Sheridan, our Regional Director for London, talks about our new education inspection framework and how we’ll inspect the curriculum in the smallest schools. Small schools are unique institutions. They...
...new education inspection framework. Especially those of you who supported our pilot inspection programme and individually and collectively took the time to respond to our consultation. Your views really are...
...heartening to see the teaching of reading being reported on so clearly in our new-style inspection reports. Here is what some inspectors are writing in their reports about the teaching...
...But, as nice as it would be, it’s unrealistic to think that a new inspection framework is suddenly going to result in a huge leap upwards in inspection grades for...
...the way we inspect schools. In June 2023, we committed to making a number of changes to the way we inspect and report, including around safeguarding. We’ve now updated our...
The last of our spring conferences for school inspectors took place on Friday 20th April. In total, around 1,600 inspectors attended the four conferences, with two held in Nottingham and...
...well to government initiatives over time, including expectations around physical activity and healthy eating. But it was not clear that the specific interventions that schools make could, in themselves, overcome...
...inspection has helped them to challenge their thinking and how to improve the school even further. More information is available in the School inspection handbook. You can keep up-to-date...