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Technical and vocational qualifications for teaching from September 2016 and reporting in 2018 performance tables.
This policy sets out the approach to publishing investigation reports for which the Department for Education has the lead responsibility.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
The standards that inspectorates of British schools overseas must meet to be able to inspect schools.
How to use school performance tables to see how a school is performing at key stage 4 compared to a school with a similar intake of pupils.
Technical and vocational qualifications approved for teaching from September 2014 and reporting in the 2016 performance tables.
The national average attainment for each qualification included in the completion and attainment measure.
How Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) work together to inspect association independent schools with an early years registration.
Guidance on key stage 4 and 16 to 18 destination measures: 2019 data
Advice note for an independent schools emergency inspection - welfare only.
When the Department for Education will intervene in a failing or underperforming non-maintained special school (NMSS).
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your independent school.
Guidance for independent school inspectorates on getting or losing approval from the Secretary of State for Education.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI to the Secretary of State for Education on no-notice school inspections.
Advice notes from Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI to the Secretary of State for Education on unregistered schools.
Guidance for Ofsted inspectors in carrying out full joint inspections of youth offending work.
Updates for inspectors and stakeholders with the latest information and guidance about Ofsted's inspection work in schools and early education settings.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI to the Secretary of State for Education on school inspections in Tower Hamlets.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, on the inspection of schools previously inspected by the Bridge Schools Inspectorate.
At the request of the Secretary of State for Education, Ofsted conducts pre-registration inspections of proposed free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges.
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