What do Ofsted and speed dating have in common?
Are inspectors' judgments influenced by the previous judgments they made?
How schools’ inspection outcomes changed under Amanda Spielman
More schools are now judged good than in 2017 although fewer are judged outstanding
Are Ofsted inspections helpful for choosing secondary schools?
Ofsted argue that inspections support school choice. But can this be true if some schools haven't been inspected for several years?
How do inspector characteristics link to short school inspection outcomes of primary schools?
This post is the last in a five part series on Ofsted inspections.
What is the joint impact of all the characteristics of Ofsted inspectors that we examine?
This post is the fourth in a five part series on Ofsted inspections.
The relationship between Progress 8 and inspection outcomes
Both inspection outcomes and Progress 8 scores are imperfect proxies of school quality. We examine how strongly they are related.
30 Years of Ofsted
We take a look at schools' inspection histories since 2005.
How many schools might be affected by new proposals to move underperforming schools into strong MATs?
We investigate one of the government's proposals for schools in the new Education Investment Areas
Inspection has become tougher for primary schools
A summary of Ofsted judgments from the Autumn term 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.