The Role And Performance Of Ofsted

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0215559169

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The role and performance of Ofsted by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee Pdf

The House of Commons Education Committee concludes that splitting Ofsted into two new organisations-the Inspectorate for Education and the Inspectorate for Children's Care-will help to focus and improve inspection in this country. The Committee believes a single children's inspectorate is too big to function effectively, and needs greater elements of specialism to give people increased confidence in inspections. Splitting Ofsted would raise confidence that the inspection of all settings is being carried out by inspectors with relevant training and experience. Different approaches to inspection would flourish, and the profile of Ofsted's non-education remit, which the Committee says Ofsted has not adequately communicated and of which many people are unaware, would be given a welcome boost. It is essential that the new Education Inspectorate prioritises reporting on progress made per pupil across the full range of ability groups and the Department for Education should seek to give these progress measures prominence comparable to other key measures, such as 'five good GCSEs' and the new English Baccalaureate. Too few inspectors have recent and relevant experience of the types of settings they inspect. Urgent reform of the Voluntary Childcare Register is needed, says the Committee. It heard evidence that the current operation of the register is seriously flawed and, far from providing a reliable system of registration and safeguarding, might mislead parents by suggesting a level of quality assurance that has not been undertaken.

Author : Tracey O'Brien
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781036002183

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Rethinking school inspection: Is there a better way? by Tracey O'Brien Pdf

This timely book examines what a meaningful school accountability system could look like in England. The book starts with a deep dive into our current inspection model, discussing some of the current pressures within the system, and comparing our inspection approach to that of other countries and sectors. It moves on to show how Ofsted and school inspections are perceived and portrayed - using first-hand accounts, academic papers, government publications, and media reports - and pulls together some of the current thinking on how the model could be improved. The author ends with her own proposals for a more meaningful and humane school accountability system. She suggests we rethink what we do, and how we do it, with a call for wide-ranging consultation leading to evidence-informed reform of the school inspection process.

Author : Hans Döbert,Hans Döbert, Eckhard Klieme, Wendelin Sroka,Eckhard Klieme,Wendelin Sroka
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 3830963734

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Conditions of School Performance in Seven Countries by Hans Döbert,Hans Döbert, Eckhard Klieme, Wendelin Sroka,Eckhard Klieme,Wendelin Sroka Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 021501958X

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The Work of Ofsted by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education and Skills Committee Pdf

The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) is a non-ministerial government department with responsibility for regular inspection of schools, further education, and the regulation of childminding and day care. As part of its ongoing scrutiny of the work of Ofsted, the Committee's report considers Ofsted's work in 2003-04, including its annual report, structure and strategy; the growth of its remit, including its new responsibilities under the Children Bill relating to the inspection of children's services; value for money aspects of its inspection activities; the process and conduct of school inspections and reporting. The Committee's findings include support for the Ofsted's proposed new streamlined inspection regime to be established under the banner of 'a new relationship with schools'; and some concern that Ofsted's strategic expansion into new areas of responsibility needs to be carefully managed to ensure effective integration of new staff and efficient use of its increased resources. The Committee also welcomes Ofsted's proposal to publish a self-assessment review of its inspection activities, and urges the inspectorate to pursue the development of rigorous benchmarking measures.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215560302

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The Role and Performance of Ofsted by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Government response to HC 570-I, session 2010-11 (ISBN 9780215559166)

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215559177

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The role and performance of Ofsted by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee Pdf

Additional written evidence is contained in Vol. 3, available on the Committee's website at www.parliament.uk/education-committee

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 0215543068

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School Accountability by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee Pdf

This report considers the roles of a variety of different agents for accountability in the English school system. The first part examines self-evaluation, self-improvement partners and local authorities. Schools have increasingly been encouraged to formalise the self-evaluation process as part of their improvement strategy. They are assisted in their self-evaluation and improvement processes by School Improvement Partners (SIPs) who are appointed by the local authority. School provision is commissioned by local authorities, who also have a remit to monitor local schools' performance. The report then focuses on the work of Ofsted. School inspection reports are a major source of information about a school's performance, and inspection is often the trigger for a school to address its performance issues. The report then looks at the Achievement and Attainment Tables, formerly known as performance tables. The tables have been the subject of controversy for many years because, although they do not actually rank schools according to their performance in national examinations, they permit others, especially the media, to do so. Critics argue that they give only a partial view of a school's overall performance, and the proposed School Report Card is an attempt to address this issue by providing more information on a wider range of performance indicators. The school accountability process has become very complex with new programmes and policies emerging piecemeal from central government. There are concerns about the consistency of approach in such a complex system. And are schools really free to drive their own improvement given that they are still subject to programmes devised and applied by central government?

Author : David Johnson,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402081866

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Teaching: Professionalisation, Development and Leadership by David Johnson,Rupert Maclean Pdf

This book addresses central issues in the professionalisation and deprofessionalisation of teachers. It tackles these issues from different perspectives and in relation to different contexts. The book analyses new managerialism. It also considers possible solutions to two problems in particular: how to achieve accountability without intensification, and how to ensure that school management and leadership functions to support and enhance teachers as professionals.

Author : Roger Slee,Sally Tomlinson,Gaby Weiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135713737

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School Effectiveness for Whom? by Roger Slee,Sally Tomlinson,Gaby Weiner Pdf

School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conservative and New Labour imaginations as a basis for educational planning and policy making in the UK. Internationally school effectiveness enjoys and expanding and enthusiastic audience. This book provides a critique of this research genre, particularly in the light of the recent calls for teaching to go 'back to the basics'. The editors argue that this school effectiveness research is simplistic in its analysis of educational problems. Far from getting to the bottom of the problem of failing students and schools, they argue, these 'movements' are merely scratching at the surface of the problems and coming up with notions for superficial improvements.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Academies (British public schools)
ISBN : 9780215090805

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HC 401 - The Role of Regional Schools Commissioners by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee Pdf

Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) were introduced as a pragmatic response to the need to ensure appropriate oversight of a growing number of academies. There is a clear need for an intermediate structure between Whitehall and individual schools, and RSCs are beginning to provide this. However, the schools landscape - and the role of the RSCs - is continuing to evolve, and the RSCs now form part of an increasingly complicated system of oversight, accountability and inspection. A more fundamental reassessment of accountability and oversight for all schools will be required in the future to provide coherence.In the meantime, the relationships that RSCs build with other components of this system, including local authorities, Ofsted, teaching schools, and parents and localcommunities, are crucial to securing impact on school improvement. An emphasis on working with and through these key partners will help ensure that RSCs have the capacity to cope with planned expansion of their role. However, the role of RSCs remains unclear to many and this must be addressed for effective relationships to be formed.

Author : Agnieszka Bates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317417859

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Transforming Education by Agnieszka Bates Pdf

Transforming Education challenges the current global orthodoxy that ‘educational transformation’ can be achieved through a step-by-step implementation of centralised, performance-based strategies for school improvement. Complex responsive processes theory is utilised in an original way to critique leadership myths and explore the alternative, deeper meanings of educational transformation. The theory opens up new forms of understanding about how ordinary practitioners negotiate the meanings of ‘improvement’ in their everyday practice. It is in the gap between the emergence of these local interactions and the predetermined designs of policy-makers that educational transformation can be lost or found. This book is an essential read for education professionals and students interested in the fields of complexity, education policy, leadership and management.

Author : Tim Bartlett
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781781350959

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The Perfect (Ofsted) School Governor by Tim Bartlett Pdf

Each of the 20,000 schools in the UK has a governing body who are an integral part of the school's major decision making processes, the results of which directly affect our children. For this reason it is essential that governors make clear and informed decisions in order to implement the best educational framework for young people. This latest addition to the hugely successful 'Perfect Series', The Perfect (Ofted) School Governor written by a seasoned professional with 17 years' of head teacher experience, aims to be the most conclusive, easy-to-read, education jargon-busting and essential guide for teachers, governors (new and old) and school boards alike. It covers everything a governor needs to be the best that they can be, including the history of the education system in England, preparation for Ofsted inspections and their impact, leadership and governance, handling complaints, a checklist for effective governor meetings; guides to interpreting data correctly and much, much more!

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112119204177

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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Phil Gadsby,Mr Mike Harrison,Mike Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135712419

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The Primary Coordinator and OFSTED Re-Inspection by Phil Gadsby,Mr Mike Harrison,Mike Harrison Pdf

Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for coordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately. subject they are called on to co-ordinate, these books provide guidance and examples to tackle the job.; There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with OFSTED, creating whole school policy and the demands of co-ordinating several subjects within a small school.; The entire set of 16 volumes is available.

Author : Liam Gearon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134125463

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Education in the United Kingdom by Liam Gearon Pdf

This accessible book provides a basic understanding of the structure and organization of education in the United Kingdom in a time of rapid change and devolved government. It is designed as an introductory guide and reference work for all with an interest in education, including trainee and newly qualified teachers, university lecturers, school-based mentors, and governors and managers. It contains an accessible summary of key issues and contributions from some of the best-known writers in the field.