The report will reveal that several small-school leaders who contacted Headrest last year felt the current Ofsted framework “exacerbated their stress levels and was not well suited to inspecting [their] provisions”. “Leaders who found themselves the only senior leader within their school often re...
“The new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) refers to learning being sequenced and adapted to suit the school I think. We use a scheme as a basis but heavily adapt and move objectives etc around. They didn’t comment on off the shelf as such other than the question. They want to ...
”A proper published evaluation is needed to tell us whether schools have suddenly become better, whether they have ‘cracked the code’ of the 2019 [inspection] framework, or whether inspectors have become less robust,” Mr Gray toldTes. “A new framework such as that of 2019 does provide...
Because if it gets the new inspection framework right, then perhaps at last inspection can become just one proportionate way of measuring the quality of education, and we can get back to talking about teaching, learning, the curriculum, teachers, young people and leadership – and do all that...
Mr Norris said that there is an “underlying problem” with the appointment of Ofsted’s chair of the board and its members by the education secretary, as set out in Ofsted’s governance framework. “There needs to be much greater openness around these appointments to strengthen confidence...
“The ‘outstanding’ judgement needs to be challenging and exacting, as it demonstrates that schools are consistently and securely doing everything that makes a school good, and going beyond that to deliver the best possible education.” Want to keep reading for free? two free articles...