Helen Matthews, our Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector (HMI) for Instructor Improvement, clarifies how and when Ofsted will examine additional schooling and expertise (FES) instructor coaching programmes by the preliminary instructor schooling (ITE) framework.
As a part of our ITE inspection framework, we examine a spread of publicly funded FES instructor coaching programmes which can be delivered by suppliers corresponding to universities, schools, unbiased studying suppliers and native authorities.
Our ITE inspection handbook features a part outlining the {qualifications} and routes into educating that fall inside the scope of ITE inspections. Nonetheless, we’ve acquired queries from some FES suppliers in regards to the circumstances by which they’d be in line for an ITE inspection. We wished to supply additional readability for these suppliers, in order that they know if, and when, they’re prone to obtain an ITE inspection.
Inspecting FES instructor coaching programmes
Within the present ITE inspection cycle (ending in July 2024), we will probably be inspecting suppliers of FES ITE that ship the next programmes, and which can be already ‘identified’ to Ofsted:
- postgraduate certificates in schooling
- skilled graduate certificates in schooling
- stage 5 certificates in schooling
- diploma in schooling and coaching (DET)
- stage 5 studying and expertise instructor apprenticeship
By ‘identified’ to Ofsted, we imply suppliers that we’re already involved with about their ITE supply. In different phrases, ‘identified’ suppliers can have acquired a partnership data return from us requesting data particularly in regards to the ITE provision that they ship.
If a supplier has not acquired a request from us for details about its ITE provision, then it is rather unlikely to be inspected earlier than July 2024, even when it offers the {qualifications} and routes into educating outlined in our handbook.
We are actually making ready for the following cycle of ITE inspections, which begins in September 2024. As a part of this planning, we anticipate that the Division for Schooling will fee Ofsted to hold out a small variety of inspections of suppliers that aren’t at the moment ‘identified’ to us, however which can be delivering the DET. We’ll have interaction with these suppliers as this work progresses over the following 2 years.
As soon as the complete extent of the following ITE inspection cycle is agreed, we are going to start to request annual partnership data returns from all suppliers that fall inside the scope of our inspections.
Holding in contact
When you’ve got any particular queries in relation to FES ITE inspections, please e-mail us at [email protected] Please additionally e-mail us if you wish to obtain common updates about instructor growth and we are going to add your contact particulars to our mailing listing. We will probably be offering common updates in regards to the inspection of FES-phase ITE provision as we transfer in the direction of the following inspection cycle.
