It’s really good that people are interested in our subject curriculum groups. We’re using these groups to learn about and be better placed to engage in the ongoing debate about...
...pre-inspection preparation remotely the day before they turn up at a school. We’ve been told for some time that the initial contact between an inspector and a school leader can...
Hopefully, those of you who keep in touch with my updates here and my Twitter activity will have noticed that one of my main preoccupations in the last year has...
...move house, leave the country, or move to another, closer school when a place becomes available. Of course, none of these things is off-rolling. Other pupils might leave to be...
How does Ofsted inspect national training providers and evaluate the standard of education and training that their apprentices receive? These inspections are more complex than regionally based ones. After all,...
...R&R! Before that summer break, I wanted to say thank you again to everyone who has engaged with us so fully over the course of the last year on the...
...parents what it’s like to be a child or young person at the school – what is being done well and what could be done better. We’ve been testing the...
...said, ‘One of the areas that I think we sometimes lose sight of is the real substance of education. Not the exam grades or the progress scores, important though they...
...between years 10 and 11, this year we’ve also looked at movements between all year groups in secondary schools. Between January 2017 and January 2018, 107,000 pupils left their state-funded...
...checked for their suitability to work with children. Carrying out checks on teaching staff, childminders, nursery staff – anyone working with young children – is a basic principle of an...