...to a more balanced picture. We want to make our expectations clear about our new approach for MAT summary evaluations, so today we’ve published our operational guidance to bring about...
Sean Harford, National Director, Education on the findings of Ofsted's report, 'Growing up neglected'.
Over recent days, there has been considerable interest in perceived bias in inspection judgements for schools that have high proportions of White British pupils who are eligible for free school...
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
...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...
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on Ofsted's research programme about the school curriculum and the preliminary findings so far.
...talked about Ofsted being a vehicle for improvement. Our current HMCI, Amanda Spielman, carries on that baton and that is the driving force of Ofsted today. I had the pleasure...
...assessment process. We’ll also take account of cases where a large number of parents have raised concerns about a school. Our regional teams will add their own local knowledge and...