News

Bonuses for senior Ofsted staff rise to £110k, and 5 more annual report findings

Ofsted has today published its annual report and accounts for 2018-19. Schools Week has rounded up the key findings....

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Spielman: ‘Red herring’ to blame plunge in D&T numbers solely on EBacc

Ofsted’s chief inspector has defended the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) as being the main driver of plunging pupil numbers for...

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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