Wendy Ratcliff, HMI, reflects on an early years inspection
...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...
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Paul Cocker, HMI, Further Education and Skills, on a four-day national inspection of apprenticeships
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apprenticeships, further education and skills, inspection
...fundamental; it helps to establish an effective working relationship. I explain the inspection process and what information I’ll require, as set out in Ofsted's inspection handbook. I need to receive...
Spring term monitoring inspections – moving forward, despite the challenges
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Chris Jones, Director, Strategy and Engagement, Posted on:
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monitoring inspections, schools
...a library in a bike shed, for example, so that children could exchange their books at agreed times without having to go into the building. However, we also found that...
Too many pupils will suffer if we delay inspection reform
...a three-year lead-in programme to get our inspectors up to speed on what they need to know and look at when inspecting something like the curriculum. We’ll also be running...
Ofsted’s subject curriculum groups
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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curriculum, education inspection framework, inspection
...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...
How Ofsted can support leaders taking on struggling schools
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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common inspection framework, leadership, schools
...is going on locally. That said, I am cautious of the idea that inspectors should be effectively located in schools, on hand to tell them what to do to ‘pass’...
Keeping children safe in education and Ofsted’s role
...requirements then at inspection we will judge them to be ineffective. This will lead to an overall inadequate judgement for the school. Inspectors look at a wide range of evidence...
Steve Tucker, HMI reflects on a further education and skills inspection
...talking to an inspector. However, we end up having useful discussions about their training and career paths. I head back to the base room, our inspection centre, with a salad...
High standards – and highly inclusive
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Nick Whittaker, HMI, Specialist Adviser, SEND, Posted on:
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inspection, SEND inspections
...should be truly inclusive. And by that, I mean inclusive in the real sense, including children and their parents: in decision-making in setting targets linked to the child’s education, health...
Knife crime: a shared problem
...tell us that around a quarter of London residents feel that knife crime and gangs are problems in their area. So earlier this year, Ofsted carried out research into how...