Ofsted

Managing change in an FE world My first months working in further education, moving from the world of blue chip, glossy corporate business, are times I remember fondly, with a smattering of [...]

Our quality improvement partner work with FE and Skills providers, often aligns with our broader consultancy assignments with our colleagues at SDN. For the last 5 years, this happens most often [...]

The latest quickbooks can be downloaded from the Resources section on our website (link below). The quickbooks show you the summary pages from Ofsted reports over a period of time, covering a [...]

The figures below are the results of Ofsted inspection activity in-year. It’s important to note these grades are for apprenticeship provision. This means they are not specific to any one [...]

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 [...]