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The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
The Education (Schools) Act 1992 (c. 38) set up a system of school inspections by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). The reports written by independent inspection teams and published by Ofsted are made public and the inspections are carried out according to a National Framework to ensure consistency across the country.
These inspections provide reports on the quality of education in organisations holding a Tier 4 licence to sponsor international students under the Points Based System. ISI is one of the approved inspectorates for overseas schools teaching a British curriculum, under the UK government's voluntary British Schools Overseas accreditation scheme.
The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. According to the government the Act " is intended to represent a major step forward in the Government’s aim of ensuring that all children in all schools get the education they need to enable them to fulfil their potential" .
The Department for Education (DfE) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for child protection, child services, education (compulsory, further, and higher education), apprenticeships, and wider skills in England.
A curricular inspection was made in October 2007, [20] focusing on the provision of citizenship education. [21] In 2009 the school retained its good Ofsted grade [22] and converted from community to foundation status. This was followed by academy status in 2011, with the school being one of the first academy converters. [2]
Highfields School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Matlock, Derbyshire, England.At the time of its September 2012 Ofsted inspection, the school had 1175 [3] pupils (male and female) on roll aged 11–18, with 215 in the sixth form. [2]
Following the Ofsted inspection in November 2017, Tring School was rated Good with an Outstanding sixth form, Outstanding personal development and Outstanding behaviour. [6] It was inspected again in 2023 and the previous judgement of Good was reconfirmed; As of 2025 [update] , this is the most recent inspection. [ 7 ]