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Ofsted’s subject curriculum groups

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: curriculum, education inspection framework, inspection

Sean Harford, Ofsted's National Director for Education, discusses the work of our subject curriculum groups.

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The myth of Ofsted consultants: do not buy the snake oil

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 18 December 2018 - Categories: curriculum, inspection, OfstedMyths, schools
Teacher with student looking at book

...last few months talking to leadership teams around the country about the development of the new framework – and listening to what they have to say. We’ve spoken to many,...

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Curriculum research: our findings

Posted by: Chris Jones, Director, Strategy and Engagement, Posted on: 18 September 2018 - Categories: curriculum, research and evaluation, schools

Chris Jones, Deputy Director, Research and Evaluation on the second phase of Ofsted's curriculum research.

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Tackling childhood obesity: a shared problem

Posted by: Chris Jones, Director, Strategy and Engagement, Posted on: 18 July 2018 - Categories: research and evaluation, schools

...I am happy to let people judge this for themselves. For this piece of research, Ofsted inspectors visited over 60 schools around the country and spoke to headteachers, governors, teachers,...

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Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 23 April 2018 - Categories: inspection, schools

Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.

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Dan Lambert, Her Majesty’s Inspector, on an ungraded inspection

Posted by: Dan Lambert, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: curriculum, inspection, schools
Picture of Her Majesty's Inspector Dan Lambert

...to find out about their training and its quality. I ask them if they know what to do if they have concerns about pupils. I talk to pupils to see...

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Sarah Hubbard, Her Majesty's Inspector, and National Lead for English, reflects on the English curriculum

Posted by: Sarah Hubbard, Posted on: 7 November 2017 - Categories: curriculum, English, inspection, schools

Sarah Hubbard, HMI and National Lead for English, on the English curriculum and the findings of Ofsted's recent research into it.

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Ofsted’s findings about the school curriculum

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 11 October 2017 - Categories: curriculum, inspection, research and evaluation, schools
Sean Harford

Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on Ofsted's research programme about the school curriculum and the preliminary findings so far.

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Summer round-up

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 29 August 2017 - Categories: curriculum

...we will look at whether we need to consider curriculum more during inspection; this will feed into the new inspection framework we are developing for September 2019. Our initial survey...

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