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With Ofsted announcing it will not carry out any more evaluations of MATs this financial year, 91¶¶Òõ looks at the key findings from its most recent reports

This week’s essential education news includes a judge’s ruling over the Ofsted chief’s comments on home education and schools’ fears about the DfE’s latest RSHE demand

Former Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw also warns that it is ‘ridiculous’ that schools with ‘terrible’ results can receive ‘good’ Ofsted judgements

Ofsted must ask chief inspector Amanda Spielman for evidence behind concerns she raised with MPs over home education, tribunal rules

This week’s essential education news includes new key stage 4 performance data revealing a bigger disadvantage gap, one exam board’s plan to take GCSEs online, and a ‘hostile attack’ on teachers’ rights

Ofsted school inspections will come under the spotlight next week when unions, governors, parents and pupils give evidence to a Commons inquiry

Next chief inspector says he will start the role with a ‘big listen’ to ensure Ofsted is ‘of the system and by the system’

Outwood Grange CEO officially confirmed as the next Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has announced

Labour’s shadow education secretary tells conference event she wants to explore how tailored support can help children recover from lost learning

Ofsted is exacerbating the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, says shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell at Labour’s annual conference

Chief inspector shares her experiences and tells academy trust sector conference that MAT inspections are inevitable

91¶¶Òõ analysis showing huge fall in ‘good’ schools being given the top rating by Ofsted reveals how it is now a ‘binary’ inspection grading system, warn leaders