Author: Billy Camden

Ofsted has bagged an extra £24 million from government to inspect every school, college and further education provider by summer 2025. For colleges specifically, they will receive a full inspection from September 2022 regardless of whether they are rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’. These colleges would typically receive a short inspection. The inspections will also be […]

John van de Laarschot will leave Nottingham College to ‘focus on regaining fitness and resilience’

An NHS trust has left the apprenticeship provider market following a highly critical Ofsted report. Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) was branded ‘inadequate’ in its first full inspection report published this week. Inspectors found a litany of problems at the provider, which was training almost 200 apprentices, including poor subcontracting oversight, […]

Some ‘outstanding’ colleges which have improved since their last inspection may still be downgraded because the bar has been raised under the latest Ofsted inspection framework. That’s according to Chris Russell, the watchdog’s national director of education, who has said if a previously grade one college receives a ‘good’ grade, it “doesn’t mean that the […]

A residential college for vulnerable young adults has been reprimanded by Ofsted for not protecting learners and staff from “harm” and teaching “not age appropriate” activities, such as The Three Little Pigs. Cambian Dilston College dropped from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ in a report published this week by the watchdog. The college is situated on a […]