Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman gave her speech entitled ‘Towards a new inspection conversation’ at our Education School’s 2018 Annual Lecture, held on Wednesday 17th October.
Amanda Spielman set out the vision for the new Education Inspection Framework from Ofsted. This new framework will move Ofsted’s focus away from headline data to look instead at how schools are achieving these results, and whether they are offering a curriculum that is broad, rich and deep, or simply teaching to the test.
Ofsted has a renewed focus on using evidence to guide decision-making with a research team led by Professor Daniel Muijs. Until recently, Daniel was a researcher in our Education School and is now a Visiting Professor.
Over 200 senior leaders and teachers from schools and colleges, and education partners of our Education School attended the event to hear about the new framework for inspection. The audience also had the opportunity to ask questions of a panel comprised of Amanda Spielman, Professor Muijs and Chris Russell, Ofsted Regional Director, South East.
Head of Southampton Education School, Professor Martin Dyke said:
“I found the lecture – A New Inspection Conversation – really refreshing particularly the emphasis on supporting schools not only making a judgement. To me this feels as if we could be turning a corner, starting a new approach to inspection. We are all looking forward to participating in the consultation on the new inspection framework.”
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