ABSTRACT
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) was established as a new government department in September 1992; its general purpose was to improve standards of achievement and quality of education through regular independent inspection, public reporting and informed advice to ministers. OFSTED is concerned to ensure that inspection processes are consistent, reliable and intelligible. An OFSTED inspection report offers the school an analysis of what is working and what is not working; it is the school's report, for the school to use in whatever way it sees fit. The inspection system produces a very great deal of information about education in England. Some inspection reports do not provide such clear and informative evaluation and are less well written; good grammar is less important than clear and informative evaluation. OFSTED has given priority to following up Rgls who demonstrate serious weaknesses in their management of an inspection or in the writing of their report.
