Sean Harford HMI, National Director for Education, talks about Ofsted’s curriculum transition arrangements and announces an extension....

Sean Harford HMI, National Director for Education, discusses how we’ll be judging the curriculum and whether length of key stage matters....

Sean Harford HMI, our National Director for Education, talks about the first inspections under the EIF and the trends we’re seeing so...

Gill Jones, our Deputy Director for Early Education, sets out how we look at early reading and phonics teaching as part of our new...

Ofsted’s Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills, Paul Joyce, talks about what our new education inspection framework (EIF)...

Mike Sheridan, our Regional Director for London, talks about our new education inspection framework and how we’ll inspect the curriculum...

The summer holidays are almost upon us. No doubt you’ll all be more than ready for the extended break after packed spring and summer...

Sean Flood, headteacher of Our Lady and St Joseph’s Primary School in Hackney, and Ofsted Inspector (OI), blogs about his experience of...

In our new school inspection handbook, we outline a quality of education (QE) judgement. Lots of the discussion about the QE judgement...

There’s just under a month left until our education inspection framework consultation closes. Thank you so much if you’ve already...

It’s really good that people are interested in our subject curriculum groups. We’re using these groups to learn about and be better...

Our research commentary prompted quite a bit of discussion on cognitive load theory (CLT) and how we’ve used it. We thought it would be...

It’s not particularly highbrow, but when talking about Ofsted’s impact on the education sector, I tend to rely on a Spider-Man quote from...