...steps to enhance inspectors’ knowledge of MAT structures and operations, and to improve the quality of reporting. We have brought on board Ofsted Inspectors, who are MAT leaders, to act...
Sean Harford, National Director, Education on the findings of Ofsted's report, 'Growing up neglected'.
...moved on considerably in schools across the country in the last decade and a half since I started inspecting. While in the early 2000s chair-chucking in schools in special measures...
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
...asking for documents and information in a way that the handbook says we don’t need. I want to stress that the vast majority of our inspections run smoothly and without...
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on Ofsted's research programme about the school curriculum and the preliminary findings so far.
...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...
...as high-stakes as a full inspection. Indeed, almost 80% of respondents to a survey last year told us they were a welcome and positive change. So we are very keen...