Who is Ofsted?
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They aim to improve lives by raising standards in education and children’s social care. They inspect and regulate thousands of organisations and individuals providing education, training and care and they share what they find by reporting directly to directly to Parliament, parents, carers and commissioners.
Find out more about Ofsted’s responsibilities here
Who do Ofsted inspect?
Ofsted is responsible for inspecting maintained schools, academies, some independent schools, colleges, apprenticeship providers, prison education, and various other educational institutions and programs outside of higher education.
Coventry University Group offers a range of courses that are subject to regular Ofsted inspections. These include Apprenticeships, Educational Programs for Young People and Initial Teacher Education courses.
Summary of the Ofsted Framework
The inspection framework sets out how Ofsted will inspect and what criteria judgments are made against.
Inspectors will make graded judgements on the following evaluation areas:
- Inclusion
- Safeguarding
- Leadership and governance
- Curriculum, teaching and training
- Achievement
- Participation and development
You can find the evidence and criteria required for each of these evaluation areas in the Ofsted tool kits here
Further education and skills inspection toolkit
The University Group and Ofsted
See our Ofsted reports in the Resource section.
University Resources
Ofsted resources for curriculum staff can be found here Registry Ofsted information
For apprenticeships go to the Better Futures Apprenticeships information Portal (Apprenticeships - Home)
Getting Support
- Book on an Ofsted course via the course booking system
- The Ofsted Assurance Manager can provide the following services in your area:
- Staff Training and Development- bespoke or generic training for teaching staff and managers about Ofsted and its requirements.
- Consultation- Advice and guidance about your responsibilities and how to prepare for inspection and achieve compliance against the Ofsted framework
- Compliance Evaluation- a professional discussion to appraise your current Ofsted compliance levels against the inspection framework.
- Deep dive- A simulated full Ofsted inspection that audits compliance and quality levels and prepares you and your teams for inspection.
Please contact the Ofsted Assurance Manager, David Burns ad3017@Coventry.ac.uk