Ofsted has today announced that a new investigation will be carried out into allegations that three schools received prior notice of their inspection dates. The inspectorate said the...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Ofsted
A data protection expert has said Ofsted is being obstructive by using copyright law to prevent teachers publishing their own lesson observation notes. Under the Data Protection Act,...
Ofsted’s national director of inspection reform is to take the helm at a Cheshire multi-academy trust at the beginning of 2015. Michael Cladingbowl (pictured) will step down from...
Schools are scoring less highly on behaviour relative to other factors since Ofsted introduced tougher inspection guidance in January, according to a new report. The findings came in...
Three schools at the centre of allegations of tipping-off over the date of Ofsted inspections have been cleared in an internal investigation by the inspectorate. The review, carried...
Ofsted announced today it is to “mount a wave” of no notice inspections this month in light of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham. HM Inspectors are to...
Two Ofsted inspectors have been dismissed after they were found to have copied and pasted elements of inspection reports. Asked about the extent of self-plagiarism during a question and answer...
Potential Trojan Horse whistleblowers were put off from coming forward in fear of their comments sparking an Ofsted inspection, it has been claimed. At the Education Select Committee’s...
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The principles underlying the changes to GCSE maths are sound. But the practicalities are less so. For a start, where...
Tristram Hunt declined to comment. Those words leapt out in a New Statesman article earlier this year describing how private...
State boarding schools are an unusual hybrid. They sound a bit like private schools (they’re not), they sound as if...