School inspection has lost sight of the principles behind its last fundamental reform - but there could be a way back, argues Adrian Lyons, former HMI and Ofsted national subject lead ...

“Although schools will have until September 2028 to implement the new national curriculum, the longer curriculum leaders and ...

Ofsted will pilot an independent complaints review service for schools in a bid to improve trust in the inspection system, ...

Ofsted is planning to recruit more inspectors with experience in trust leadership as it prepares to introduce multi-academy trust-level inspections. A recruitment campaign - expected after Christmas - ...

An intervention found that explicit teaching of mathematical reasoning leads to progress in the subject - but how does it work? Jasmine Norden asks the experts ...

Tes investigation reveals just 5 per cent of schools are graded by Ofsted as having both strengths and weaknesses, despite ...

The co-chair of a panel leading the government’s SEND reforms also says it is considering ‘really carefully’ whether separate ...

Scheme risks giving pupils ‘unnecessary’ second breakfast - but can also improve attainment and behaviour, research finds ...

With trusts under pressure to be more collaborative, it can be tempting to move towards greater standardisation - but this can backfire, says Professor Michael Green, who proposes a more flexible appr ...

The NAHT school leaders’ union says change is needed at the top of the inspectorate and agrees to take ‘whatever action necessary’ to bring reform ...

One student’s question got this deputy head thinking about the realities of good leadership - and the fact that much of it comes down to accepting you don’t know everything and looking to others for h ...

As well as challenging the DfE’s preference of a national MAT for its schools, the Cumbrian trust also called for more transparency in DfE decision-making, greater consistency in intervention measures ...