What Keeps Providers Awake at Night? At our recent FIN Bootcamp, we asked delegates a simple question: What are your biggest fears around inspection? The answers were honest, familiar and often shared across the sector. For many, the biggest concern is being inspected, along with the fear of receiving a ‘Needs Attention’ judgement and how […]
Kerry Boffey of FIN asks if nominee training is about preparing for an Ofsted inspection or should it be doing something much bigger. Of course, nominees need to understand inspection. They need to understand the framework, know how inspection works, understand what evidence inspectors will explore and be able to help their organisation present its […]
Japan is a world leader for maths. The TES published a really interesting article about how Japan teaches maths. Follow this link. It appears Japan improved its maths score and held its place near the top of the global rankings. Many readers will have experienced ‘new approaches’, sowhat’s different here? Japanese maths lessons are taught […]
Ofsted should judge every provider on local skills needs and rethink its expectations of apprentices The government has instigated a welcomed, fresh approach on how Ofsted will make its judgements across the post-16 sector as part of Andy Burnham’s technical education and devolution reforms. With the final report of Alan Milburn’s NEET review also on the horizon, […]
Inclusion In August, an ITE report offers greater insight into how inspectors evaluate inclusion. Here’s an extract, but the full report on Blackburn College’s strong performance across the board is worth reading. “Leaders take deliberate actions to ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion are integral to initial teacher education provision. Trainees benefit from sessions on […]
Emerging Inspection Themes Recently, we have seen an increase in negative report comments about the impact of governance and governance access to performance information. This extract is from a recently published report and fairly accurately sums up the issue that inspectors are identifying. “Leaders’ and governors’ understanding of the areas they need to improve, particularly […]
Kerry Boffey of FIN identifies changes in the Ofsted operating guide and toolkit which require provider attention before September. Providers preparing for inspection should pay as much attention to Ofsted’s ‘Further education and skills operating guide for inspectors: for use from September 2026’ as the changes to the inspection toolkit. Good preparation saves time and […]
All providers process management information; some are highly detailed, while others are less so. Management produces the results that inform data, but leadership is about how those data are used. It’s not often we see comments about data in inspection reports, but this one appeared recently: “In a few instances, leaders do not record or […]
Why is Ofsted unwilling to rate independent training providers as ‘exceptional’ in its inspection report criteria, when so much of their work is clearly outstanding? This week Ofsted has published an inspection report on Kleek Apprenticeships which finds that the national provider in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy has ‘strong’ standards across the board. Are Kleek ecstatic? Far from it. The previously […]
Try something different There’s an interesting article in the TES titled ‘Why group work is growing in US and Swedish maths classrooms’. Group work is a key pedagogy promoted by FIN. That said, there is much more to this and we commend readers to follow this link and read the full article. An extract from […]
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