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No full Ofsted return until summer 2021

Full graded Ofsted inspections will not return until the summer term, the government has announced. But monitoring visits, including to those with grade three and four ratings and new apprenticeship providers, will resume in January. Ofsted said FE providers that do not receive a monitoring visit “may receive support and assurance visits”, which will result […]

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Spielman ‘not expecting’ graded inspections from January

Ofsted is not expecting to resume graded inspections in January, the chief inspector has said. Speaking at the launch of the watchdog’s latest annual report, Amanda Spielman said Ofsted needed to “take account of the national situation, and we’ve always said that the timing and form of our return was under review”. I’m not expecting […]

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Ofsted annual report highlights ‘inadequate’ apprenticeships as private provider grades fall for 4th year

Apprenticeships are the “weakest” area of provision in FE providers, with one in ten judged ‘inadequate’ last year, Ofsted has said. In its annual stocktake of education, the inspectorate reported that of the 120 inspections to include an apprenticeships grade in 2019/20, 3 per cent achieved ‘outstanding’, 50 per cent were ‘good’, and 38 per […]

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Ofsted’s 2019/20 annual report: Key findings for the FE and skills sector

Ofsted has today published its annual stocktake of education for the 2019/20 academic year, which saw inspection activity largely disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week has the key findings for the FE and skills sector.   Inspections of newly-merged colleges found a third ‘required improvement’  Ofsted inspected 26 of the 46 colleges formed […]

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DfE hiring spree for Covid response

A huge recruitment drive has been launched at the Department for Education to aid its response to Covid-19, with 100 jobs up for grabs. Job adverts for the 12-month contracts contain limited detail but state that people are being sought to work in “priority roles” that have been impacted by the pandemic and will be […]

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London college agrees merger after being put at ‘significant risk’

A London college which was put at “significant risk” by failures in financial management and control is seeking to join a successfully-merged neighbour. Richmond-upon-Thames College (RuTC) has announced, as a result of an FE Commissioner-led structure and prospects appraisal, that it plans to merge with Harrow College and Uxbridge College (HCUC) by August 2021. It […]

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Ofsted ‘visits’ to go online during national lockdown

Ofsted has confirmed it will undertake school and FE provider visits “remotely” during the national lockdown. In a Twitter post this evening, the inspectorate said the programme of autumn visits across schools, colleges and other FE providers will be done remotely from Thursday. The post added: “During the national lockdown we will undertake our work […]

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What Ofsted found in the first 10 ‘interim visits’ of FE providers

Virtual work placements, redesigned curriculums for practical courses and borrowing prosthetic limbs are among the creative adjustments made by FE providers to continue education in the midst of a pandemic, Ofsted has found. The inspectorate this week published letters from the first ten “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that are taking place this […]

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Mergers drag down college Ofsted grades

Ofsted inspection results for the college sector at the end of last year fell for the first time in three years after a substantial number of merged colleges received a grade three. FE Week’s annual analysis of inspection grades shows that 76 per cent of general FE colleges have been placed in the top two […]

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