Improving school attendance
Persistent school absence is one of the most significant ongoing impacts of the pandemic. The latest data shows that nearly 1 in 4 pupils were absent for 10% of school...
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Our approach to inspecting small schools
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Richard Kueh HMI, Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
inspection, schools, teachers
...them to a small boat. A small boat has a smaller crew. It carries fewer passengers. Everyone has to do a lot of different jobs. If someone is not there,...
Testing our proposals to improve education inspections
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Alex Jones, Director, Insights and Research, Posted on:
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early years, further education and skills, initial teacher education, inspection, research and evaluation, schools
...to providers, by more than one inspector. It will test whether inspectors follow the same process, and have shared views on the strengths and areas for improvement an end-to-end visit...
Knife crime: a shared problem
...to look beyond the school gates. As well as providing a safe environment, and teaching children about gangs and crime, there are things that school leaders must do better. Our...
What Dan Owen, Her Majesty’s Inspector, looks at on a short inspection
During a short inspection, one of the main priorities is getting to know the school well, very quickly. The day starts with myself and an Ofsted Inspector (OI) meeting the...
Sarah Hubbard, Her Majesty's Inspector, and National Lead for English, reflects on the English curriculum
...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...
Paul Cocker, HMI, Further Education and Skills, on a four-day national inspection of apprenticeships
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Paul Cocker, Posted on:
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Categories:
apprenticeships, further education and skills, inspection
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,...
Dan Lambert, Her Majesty’s Inspector, on an ungraded inspection
Ungraded inspections are of schools that were good at their previous inspection to check that they remain good. These inspections last one day and typically take place every three to...
Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
...each cohort, so they can’t be compared until everyone’s taken the test. ‘Expected progress’ was removed as an accountability measure in 2015 by the Department for Education. What inspectors do...
Ofsted's spring conferences
Posted by:
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
curriculum, inspection
...level of inspection grades, especially the overall effectiveness judgement. But the professional conversations between inspectors and school leaders are where the greatest value in our work lies. When we get...