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Ofsted handed £24m to inspect all schools, colleges and providers by 2025

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 […]

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College CEO to step down after ‘serious heart attack’

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

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Interview: Tom Richmond

His name, and the name of his think tank, gets everywhere. How is one man who left teaching twice so influential in the busy world of education policy? You have to admire Tom Richmond’s nerve. There aren’t many teachers who, after three years in the classroom, decided the Department for Education was messing up, thought […]

Profiles

NHS trust apologises as it exits the apprenticeship market

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, […]

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Centenary celebration of L&W sees Princess Royal back prison education reform

Careers education was a big theme of the even

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Why Ofsted’s new inspection framework may see ‘outstanding’ providers marked down

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 […]

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SEND college censured for safety concerns and ‘inappropriate’ teaching

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 […]

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New FE Commissioner: ‘I want to change perception from one of fear to one of support’

But ‘some leaders do some really silly things, so there will always be consequences’, Shelagh Legrave warns

Feature, News

Richard Branson’s Virgin Care training arm takes off with top Ofsted marks

Inspectors lauded apprentices for ‘outstanding resilience’ during the pandemic

News, Ofsted