A new approach to evaluating the work of multi-academy trusts
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on how Ofsted will evaluate and review multi-academy trusts.
Child neglect: how are schools addressing the issue?
Sean Harford, National Director, Education on the findings of Ofsted's report, 'Growing up neglected'.
Deprivation, ethnicity and school inspection judgements
Sean Harford and Jason Bradbury, Ofsted's Chief Statistician look at the range of evidence in inspection judgements for schools with high proportions of White British pupils and on free school meals.
Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
What’s an inspection judgement based upon?
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on complaints and data and the criteria behind inspection judgements.
Ofsted’s findings about the school curriculum
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on Ofsted's research programme about the school curriculum and the preliminary findings so far.
Summer round-up
Sean Harford welcomes readers back from their summer break. He writes about recent events, such as the Festival of Education and about Ofsted's curriculum survey.
Changing our approach to short inspections: your views wanted
Sean Harford explains the purpose and rationale for two proposed changes to the way Ofsted carries out short inspections of good schools.