Inspection has become tougher for primary schools
A summary of Ofsted judgments from the Autumn term 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.
A summary of Ofsted judgments from the Autumn term 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.
With a new inspection framework on the way, how closely tied to progress scores are Ofsted ratings currently?
And how might this be changing?
Looking at inspections since the introduction of Progress 8.
This is a joint blogpost from Education Datalab and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). This post was updated on 16 October 2017. The cut-off date for inclusion in this analysis was originally stated as 30 June 2017, based on an earlier draft of this analysis, when it should have been given as 31 [...]
Ofsted yesterday announced its response to the consultation it ran this summer on its short inspections policy. The inspectorate had proposed extending from 48 hours, to 15 days, the window in which a full inspection must take place after a short inspection converts. But it has now opened another consultation [PDF] that proposes that from [...]
Is it proportionate for schools with a good inspection rating to receive inspections the same in length and scope to those received by schools which had exhibited weaknesses in the recent past? That, in short, was the thinking when new, short inspections for schools with good ratings were introduced by Sir Michael Wilshaw in September [...]