News

Ofsted: Curriculum intent isn’t new, and it won’t be the ‘next big thing’

Ofsted has said that its curriculum intent requirements are “nothing new”, nor the “next big thing”, as it attempts...

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
News

Ofsted downgrades hundreds more ‘outstanding’ schools

Almost a third of previously ‘outstanding’ schools inspected since last September have dropped to ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’, Ofsted...

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
News

Ofsted mulls creating school reviews website

Ofsted has refused to rule out creating a TripAdvisor-style reviews website for parents after more than three quarters of...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Ofsted’s evidence is so unfounded that their case for retaining grades collapses

Ofsted’s defence of its four-point grading scheme in its recent paper (Retaining the current grading system in education, April...

John Dickens
FRANK COFFIELD
News

Parents want more ‘outstanding’ schools inspected, plus 4 more Ofsted findings

Parents want ‘outstanding’ schools inspected more often, but believe short inspections are increasingly behind unreliable judgments. Ofsted has published...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Spielman ordered sanction of off-rolling school

The chief inspector intervened to downgrade the Ofsted rating of a school found to have off-rolled pupils, Schools Week...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted refuses to name 300 ‘off-rolling’ schools

Ofsted will not name the 300 schools that could be off-rolling pupils in case it alerts them to upcoming...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Ofsted framework: Heads warn audit culture will ‘switch’ to exercise books

Headteachers have dismissed Ofsted’s claims that its new inspection framework will reduce workload, warning that a proposed shift from...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Exclusions: Ofsted will look more closely at ‘repeat’ patterns of suspension

Ofsted will look more closely at whether schools are “repeatedly” suspending or isolating the same pupils, under its new...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg