The Office for Standards in Education,Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government,reporting to Parliament. Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education,training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students. Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions,including state schools and some independent schools. It also inspects childcare,adoption and fostering agencies and initial teacher training,and regulates early years childcare facilities and children's social care services.
Ampleforth College is a co-educational fee-charging boarding and day school in the English boarding school tradition. It opened in 1802 as a boys' school. It is located near the village of Ampleforth,North Yorkshire,England,on the grounds of Benedictine monastery Ampleforth Abbey. The school is located in the heart of a valley with state-of-the-art sports pitches,wooded areas,and lakes. The school holds the oldest purpose-built school theatre in the United Kingdom,a dedicated student pub,and its own infirmary.
Sir Christopher Anthony Woodhead was a British educationalist. He was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England from 1994 to 2000,and was one of the most controversial figures in debates on the direction of English education policy. He was Chairman of Cognita,a company dedicated to fostering private education,from 2004 to 2013.
Kingsdale Foundation School (KFS) is a British mixed secondary school with academy status in West Dulwich,London,with an age range of 11–19 (Year 7 to sixth form). Admissions to the school are coordinated by the Southwark London Borough Council as part of the Pan London Admissions Arrangements. However,many students live in surrounding boroughs,such as Lambeth,Lewisham and Croydon.
The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) is approved by the Secretary of State for Education –under section 106 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 –to inspect private schools in England. These schools are members of associations,which form the Independent Schools Council.
Oasis Academy MediaCityUK is a co-educational secondary school for 11-16 year olds in Salford Quays,Salford,Greater Manchester,England. The school is an academy run by Oasis Community Learning,a multi-academy trust. The buildings date from 2012. It has had a turbulent history but is now classed by Ofsted as a "Good" school.
City Lit is an adult education college in Holborn,central London,founded by the London County Council in 1919,which has charitable status. It offers part-time courses across four schools and five "centres of expertise",covering humanities and sciences,languages,performing arts,visual arts,deaf education,family learning,community outreach,learning disabilities education,speech therapy and universal skills.
Caversham Primary School is a state primary school in Caversham,a suburb of Reading,Berkshire in England. The school was established in 1907 and educates around 450 children between the ages of 4 and 11.
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) is a non-ministerial government department that regulates qualifications,exams and tests in England. Colloquially and publicly,Ofqual is often referred to as the exam "watchdog".
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK),is an international children's educational charity based in London,UK.
Alderwood School is a coeducational all-through school located over three sites in Aldershot in Hampshire,England. It was formed in September 2017 from the merger of Belle Vue Infant School,Newport Junior School and The Connaught School.
Ark Greenwich Free School is a co-educational secondary free school located in the Woolwich area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London,England. The school opened as Greenwich Free School in September 2012 with an initial intake of 11-year-old pupils,with the school expanding admissions every year to eventually become a full secondary school with a sixth form.
Ormiston Victory Academy is a secondary school and sixth form located in Costessey,Norfolk,England. The academy has specialisms in Science and Applied Learning.
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School is a state-funded Jewish secondary school for girls,located in the Stamford Hill area of the London Borough of Hackney,in England. The school primarily serves the Charedi Jewish community of Stamford Hill.
Fowey River Academy is a co-educational secondary school with academy status,serving a large and diverse catchment area including Fowey,the nearby towns of St Blazey and Lostwithiel and surrounding villages.
The Trojan Horse scandal,also known as "Operation Trojan Horse" or the Trojan Horse affair,is a conspiracy theory that posits a plot to introduce an "Islamist" or "Salafist" ethos into several schools in Birmingham,England. The name,based on the Greek legend,comes from an anonymous letter sent to Birmingham City Council in late 2013,alleged to be from Birmingham "Islamists" detailing how to wrest control of a school,and speculating about expanding the scheme to other cities. The letter was leaked to the press in March 2014. Around a month later,Birmingham City Council revealed that following the letter release it had received hundreds of allegations of plots similar to those described in the letter,some claims dating back over 20 years. The letter has been characterised as "incomplete,unsigned and unaddressed",but led to two investigations commissioned by the Department for Education and Birmingham City Council,the Clarke and Kershaw Reports,respectively. The reports did not both endorse the idea of "a plot",but point to "behaviour indicative of a concerted attempt to change schools".
Michaela Community School is an 11–18 mixed,free secondary school and sixth form in Wembley,Greater London,England. It was established in September 2014 with Katharine Birbalsingh as headteacher and Suella Braverman as the first chair of governors. It has been described as the "strictest school in Britain",and achieved among the best GCSE results in the nation among its first cohort of students. In both 2022 and 2023 the value-added (progress) score at GCSE was the highest for any school in England.
Off-rolling or offrolling is the practice in the United Kingdom,of removing disadvantaged and struggling pupils from the school roll,before they take their final exams so their poor results are not included in the school statistics.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom,all secondary education examinations due to be held in 2020 were cancelled. As a result,an alternative method had to be designed and implemented at short notice to determine the qualification grades to be awarded to students for that year. A standardisation algorithm was produced in June 2020 by the regulator Ofqual in England,Qualifications Wales in Wales,Scottish Qualifications Authority in Scotland,and CCEA in Northern Ireland. The algorithm was designed to combat grade inflation,and was to be used to moderate the existing but unpublished centre-assessed grades for A-Level and GCSE students. After the A-Level grades were issued,and after criticism,Ofqual,with the support of HM Government,withdrew these grades. It issued all students the Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs),which had been produced by teachers as part of the process. The same ruling was applied to the awarding of GCSE grades,just a few days before they were issued:CAG-based grades were the ones released on results day.
Sir Martyn Ellis Oliver has served as HM Chief Inspector of Education,Children's Services and Skills in England since 1 January 2024. He has been appointed for a five-year term.
