A few Sundays ago at the heady hour of 8pm I joined the regular #SLTchat on twitter, which, you may know, is for both teachers and...

Back in June last year, when Ofsted announced the changes to inspection under the common inspection framework, we also explained how we...

Many of you will have read or heard about the Government’s White Paper: Educational Excellence Everywhere, published last week,...

There’s been some speculation about the timing of inspections, particularly of the new short inspections, and I understand that some...

A belated happy new year – I hope you all managed to have some rest at the end of last year, and like me, are fully refreshed for this...

Last month’s blog mentioned our survey on how well school teachers were informed about the September inspection arrangements. There’s...

To do a good job, it’s critical that Ofsted listens to the people who use and work in the services we inspect. It’s actually part of our...

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of meeting around 130 National Co-ordinators of Governor Services (NCOGS) at their conference in...

As summer comes to an end it is back to work for many of us, be that for schools, colleges or nurseries.  I hope that everyone is...

In the last month we have run eight national launch conferences to explain the changes to Ofsted inspection coming in September. At these...

Back in the early hours of a Wednesday morning in May, through the ever helpful medium of Twitter, I posed the following question:...

Sean Harford, Ofsted’s National Director for Schools corrects some misunderstandings about Ofsted’s requirements. I’ve been delighted...