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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.
Woodhead was appointed head of the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), the schools inspection service, in 1994. [6] By this time, Woodhead advocated "traditional teaching methods" and took a scornful view of "progressive educational theories" introduced into English schools from the 1960s onwards.
Ofsted publish reports on the quality of education at a particular school on a regular basis. Schools judged by Ofsted to be providing an inadequate standard of education may be subject to special measures, which could include replacing the governing body and senior staff. Test and inspection results for schools are published, and are an ...
A coroner investigating Perry's suicide found that the Ofsted inspection of her school "contributed" to her death and found the inspection "lacked fairness, respect and sensitivity" and was at times "rude and intimidating"" [27] Perry's death had resulted in calls for one-word inspection judgements given by Ofsted to be scrapped, something ...
In 2006, a report by Jim Rose, Director of Ofsted, recommended synthetic phonics—an approach where children are taught to recognise the sounds represented by letters. This method quickly became the principal method of teaching reading to young children in England, to a greater extent than most of the English-speaking world.
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.
Sir Michael Wilshaw (born 3 August 1946) was the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and head of Ofsted from 2012 until 2016.. A teacher by profession, he is a former headteacher of St Bonaventure's and Mossbourne Community Academy, and was briefly interim Headmaster and later executive principal of JFS.
Most independent schools which are not members of the ISC are inspected by Ofsted. [ 4 ] The inspectorate also conducts Educational Oversight inspections of private further education colleges and English language schools in England and Wales on behalf of the Home Office . [ 5 ]