He was speaking after a number of independent schools in the country were accused of failing to deal with complaints about a “rape culture”. Addressing the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Shafiee said: “We stand ready to support the government in any way that we can to strengthen sa...
The Harris Federation hit back this morning after Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, used the launch of her third annual report to warn against schools “narrowing education” in order to deliver “acceptable” GCSE grades. Her comments follow academy chains’ complaints about Ofsted critici...
The article reports on the paper "Twelve Outstanding Secondary Schools, Excelling Against the Odds," by Great Britain's Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), which found that outstanding schools in difficult areas can keep their success by sticking to the basics. OFSTED reported on 12 secon...
Since Ofsted is involved in inspecting all educational institutions including primary, middle and secondary schools, as well as colleges and higher educational establishments, not all of the strategy is directly related to early years. However, one of the main points in the new strategy document is...
Some changes had already been announced - such as giving schools more information on when inspections will happen and a consultation on reforms to the complaints system. Schools where safeguarding concerns prompt an overall 'inadequate' rating, but where other measures are rated good or...
Some school heads were also concerned that the new grading system would adversely affect the ratings of some schools. Complaints about inspections were similar in number and type to inspections under the old system. INSET: Letters to pupil go down well.Twinch...
learning.However, it was recently revealed that more than a quarter of the school's teachers are either trainees or only recently qualified.Headmaster David Throp resigned five weeks ago after complaints from parents about the large numbers of such staff, as well as poor management and missing ...
one inspector was telling people what lesson grades would have been ‘in old money’. This featured in our complaint but, due to the circular, Kafkaesque nature of this complaints process, where Ofsted is judge, witness and jury, there was no evidence of this so officially, it did not happ...
How Ofsted handles complaints Ofsted has a three-step procedure to deal with complaints about inspections. The first step is “informal”, whereby schools raise their complaints, which are not formally recorded, directly during an inspection. Step two involves a school submitting a formal complaint,...
The chief inspector says a 'different government' might want to give the watchdog the remit to work with schools on improvement