I hope everyone enjoyed their summer holidays and that you are all now comfortably settling into the new academic year. This is often a...

Since joining Ofsted as the Deputy Director for Data and Insight team and its Chief Statistician in January, I have been looking at how...

On a one-day early years inspection I have to gather a lot of evidence. This helps me to reach an accurate rating at the end of the day –...

Watching inspections and checking that the process is working well is part of my role as a Senior HMI. I shadow inspections of our new...

The culmination of two years’ hard work for those about to take GCSEs, including my own son, is soon to be upon us. Once the exams are...