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Ofsted further education and skills research

Ofsted research about further education and skills.

• From: Ofsted
• Published: 15 May 2015
• Last updated: 12 February 2016 — See all updates

Ofsted carries out research alongside its main inspection programme of providers.

This serves a range of purposes. Depending on the subject chosen, it provides an opportunity to focus on specific issues in greater detail than is possible during an institutional inspection. Alternatively, it may explore an aspect that falls outside the current inspection framework, or may sample provision in areas of our remit that we do not currently inspect.

T-Levels

• A review of the quality of T-level courses: interim report
  • 24 October 2022
  • Research and analysis

Apprenticeships

• Ensuring quality of apprenticeships and subcontracting arrangements
  • 24 October 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Apprenticeships: what successful providers are doing
  • 11 April 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Apprenticeships: developing skills for future prosperity
  • 22 October 2015
  • Research and analysis

How colleges are run

• Local accountability and autonomy in colleges
  • 15 March 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Teaching, learning and assessment in further education and skills
  • 18 September 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Virtual learning environments: resources for providers
  • 28 April 2014
  • Research and analysis
• How colleges improve and sustain high performance
  • 27 September 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Volunteering programmes for young people: how beneficial are they?
  • 5 December 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Commissioning young people’s services: evaluation of approaches
  • 9 August 2011
  • Research and analysis

Employment and enterprise

• Skills for employment: assessing training and support
  • 12 July 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Promoting enterprise in college vocational courses
  • 21 November 2012
  • Research and analysis

Inspection methodology

• Inspecting education quality: lesson observation and workbook scrutiny
  • 26 June 2019
  • Research and analysis
• Retaining Ofsted's current grading system in education
  • 30 April 2019
  • Research and analysis
• Education inspection framework: overview of research
  • 2 July 2019
  • Research and analysis

Prison education

• Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons
  • 22 March 2022
  • Research and analysis

Safeguarding

• Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges
  • 10 June 2021
  • Research and analysis
• Safeguarding in colleges: best practice
  • 11 April 2011
  • Research and analysis
• The Prevent duty in further education and skills providers
  • 4 August 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
  • 16 September 2019
  • Research and analysis

SEND

• Access to youth work for young people with disabilities
  • 31 January 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Young people with learning difficulties or disabilities: progression from school
  • 23 August 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Preparing learners with high needs for adult life
  • 22 March 2016
  • Research and analysis

Skills

• Skills Bootcamps thematic survey
  • 9 November 2022
  • Research and analysis
• Improving science in further education and sixth form colleges
  • 14 October 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Tackling low numeracy skills in young people and adults
  • 8 April 2011
  • Research and analysis

Study programmes

• Lessons from Foundation Learning for the 16 to 19 Study Programmes
  • 3 June 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Level 2 study programmes
  • 21 November 2018
  • Research and analysis
• Transforming 16 to 19 education and training
  • 9 October 2014
  • Research and analysis

Published 15 May 2015
Last updated 12 February 2016 + show all updates

1. 12 February 2016

   Added a link to survey inviting feedback on publications.

2. 22 October 2015

   Added apprenticeship report

3. 15 May 2015

   First published.