I hope you've all had an enjoyable break over the summer holidays. In preparation for back to school we have published our updated Section 5 and Section 8 school inspection...
...work-experience with managers for the rest of the morning and between those meetings I make time to visit the college library to speak to students. At the start they're nervous...
...what the focus should be. Schools should of course prepare pupils for the public examinations they sit, but the beauty of the national curriculum for English is that it has...
...at how staff qualifications differ between providers in differing areas of deprivation (using income deprivation affecting children index, IDACI) the largest differences are found in proportions of qualified staff between...
...whether it is helping them to achieve better outcomes. We know that some pupils, for example those who have profound and multiple learning difficulties, are working at significantly lower levels....
...up to use this new tool on over 8,000 inspections annually. As you probably know, inspectors currently capture evidence on handwritten forms. These forms are collated by the lead inspector...
...We were shadowed on day 2 by Ofsted’s Regional Director, London, so no pressure there! A move away from data My biggest observation was the sheer joy – both for...
Ofsted’s Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills, Paul Joyce, talks about what our new education inspection framework (EIF) means for further education and skills providers. As most of...
...be better catered for and action must be taken to reverse the decline in school leavers taking up apprenticeships. Employers play a vital role. Apprenticeship reforms have put employers in...
...published procedures for a no formal designation inspection of schools. The inspections were carried out to enable Her Majesty's Chief Inspector to better understand the quality of education in specific...