Ofsted

Your self-assessment report is complete and now there’s the improvement plan to finalise. I don’t know about you but in my experience, my heads of department and I had occasionally run out of [...]

A word of caution for employer providers; treating self assessment as a paper exercise is a dangerous game. It is unsurprising that we have seen an increase in the number of employer providers on [...]

Education provider support company Mesma has helped a County Durham training organisation to improve the way it manages its quality assurance activity. Gateshead-based Mesma has worked with [...]

Ofsted has confirmed today it’s intention to consult on radical changes to early years, schools and FE inspections. ‘Launching an eight-week consultation, Sir Michael Wilshaw said the [...]

Ofsted annual lecture: Securing Better Future for All 16 and Beyond http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/news/ofsted-further-education-and-skills-annual-lecture-securing-better-future-for-all-16-and-beyond-0

Ofsted can often visit schools at very short notice, and staff members need to be ready for these drop-ins. Identifying this issue, Mesma have developed an online resource to help teachers be [...]

Our clients have had some very positive feedback on their approach to self assessment and improvement planning using Mesma in recent months. We thought you would appreciate sight of one [...]

Ofsted’s latest summary report shows 46% of Independent Training Providers and 34% of colleges were graded either 3-4 in the first quarter of 2013. http://bit.ly/r2FX5V

For any further education provider still concerned about the Ofsted guidance around the format of self assessment reports, here is a link to the relevant page on their website. http://bit.ly/VbSfrj

A call for quality over quantity by the BIS Select Committee as part of their review into apprenticeship delivery,including prioritised funding allocation in line with Ofsted grade. [...]