New website for our inspection reports – meeting users’ needs
Ofsted has a new website for inspection reports that's using up-to-date technology. It's simpler to use. The design and content is clearer and it's a better user-experience.
Off-rolling: using data to see a fuller picture
...alone. Unsurprisingly not all children are equally likely to be affected. Children with special educational needs, children eligible for free school meals, children looked after, and some minority ethnic groups...
Deprivation, ethnicity and school inspection judgements
Posted by:
Jason Bradbury and Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
data and Insight, leadership, schools
...for schools with varying proportions of White British pupils eligible for FSM, the data does not support this view. The following chart shows that for schools with higher proportions of...
Statistics, like art, paint a rich picture
Since joining Ofsted as the Deputy Director for Data and Insight team and its Chief Statistician in January, I have been looking at how data is currently used to support our business and how it can be developed. It is …
Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
What’s an inspection judgement based upon?
...Recently I’ve heard the same question about school performance and our inspections from a number of different people, as well as queries about the complaint process. Bluntly, if you come...