Ofsted
"WHAT IS OFSTED?"
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. The organisation is independent, impartial and reports directly to Parliament. Its mission is to raise standards in education. This is carried out by inspecting and regulating education services for children, young people, and those that provide education for learners of all ages. Ofsted aims to help those providers needing help by promoting their improvement through suggested best practices and monitoring their improvement.
INSPECTION AND REGULATION
Ofsted makes use of inspectors that specify in certain fields. For example, different specialists would inspect a nursery and a college. The focus of the inspections is the quality of service found at each education provider. At the inspections, the inspectors collect first-hand information to later incorporate in their professional judgments in official inspection reports. Ofsted can also act as a regulator for certain providers to make sure that the services, premises, and people are suitable for a child’s needs. In the case that the provider is not meeting the required standards, Ofsted regulators will require them to make necessary changes to improve or take away the license to operate.
SCHOOL INSPECTION REPORTS
Every few years schools typically have an inspection, which parents should use to decide a preference for schools. The reports describe the school, discuss the findings, and rate the school on the following scale: grade 1 (outstanding), grade 2 (good), grade 3 (requires improvement), and grade 4 (inadequate). (Please note that this grading may have been changed after this page was written). The inspection includes information about how the pupils are doing, what they are taught, management and leadership at the school, parent opinions, and suggestions for improvement.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Each year, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Ofsted publishes a report of the organisation’s findings. Every year thousands of inspections are carried out of schools, early years and childcare, services for families and children, adult learning and skills, and colleges. The results of these inspections are combined to create an Annual Report.
STRATEGIC PLAN AND GOALS FOR THE FUTURE
Ofsted published its Strategic Plan 2011-2015 on 27 September 2011. The plan outlined its four main priorities for the upcoming years. Ofsted hopes to achieve: better outcomes by driving improvement for children and learners of all ages; better inspection and regulation by providing sharper accountability focusing on under performance and striving for fairness; better public involvement by taking into account other people’s views and by providing people enough information to make choices; and finally, better ways of working by using resources effectively, efficiently, and sustainably.
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. The organisation is independent, impartial and reports directly to Parliament. Its mission is to raise standards in education. This is carried out by inspecting and regulating education services for children, young people, and those that provide education for learners of all ages. Ofsted aims to help those providers needing help by promoting their improvement through suggested best practices and monitoring their improvement.
INSPECTION AND REGULATION
Ofsted makes use of inspectors that specify in certain fields. For example, different specialists would inspect a nursery and a college. The focus of the inspections is the quality of service found at each education provider. At the inspections, the inspectors collect first-hand information to later incorporate in their professional judgments in official inspection reports. Ofsted can also act as a regulator for certain providers to make sure that the services, premises, and people are suitable for a child’s needs. In the case that the provider is not meeting the required standards, Ofsted regulators will require them to make necessary changes to improve or take away the license to operate.
SCHOOL INSPECTION REPORTS
Every few years schools typically have an inspection, which parents should use to decide a preference for schools. The reports describe the school, discuss the findings, and rate the school on the following scale: grade 1 (outstanding), grade 2 (good), grade 3 (requires improvement), and grade 4 (inadequate). (Please note that this grading may have been changed after this page was written). The inspection includes information about how the pupils are doing, what they are taught, management and leadership at the school, parent opinions, and suggestions for improvement.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Each year, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Ofsted publishes a report of the organisation’s findings. Every year thousands of inspections are carried out of schools, early years and childcare, services for families and children, adult learning and skills, and colleges. The results of these inspections are combined to create an Annual Report.
STRATEGIC PLAN AND GOALS FOR THE FUTURE
Ofsted published its Strategic Plan 2011-2015 on 27 September 2011. The plan outlined its four main priorities for the upcoming years. Ofsted hopes to achieve: better outcomes by driving improvement for children and learners of all ages; better inspection and regulation by providing sharper accountability focusing on under performance and striving for fairness; better public involvement by taking into account other people’s views and by providing people enough information to make choices; and finally, better ways of working by using resources effectively, efficiently, and sustainably.
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