AoC responds to Ofsted inspection changes

David Hughes, Chief Executive, Association of Colleges said: “The new approach to inspecting colleges released by Ofsted with its suite of new documents will take some time to fully digest.

"College leaders and AoC staff have provided a lot of feedback to Ofsted as part of the Big Listen, the consultation on the proposed changes and the testing of the approach in individual colleges over the last few months and it is clear that some positive changes have been made as a result of that feedback.

"Fundamentally, we will only know if this is going to work from the first inspections implementing it, and we will support Ofsted and colleges to try to make sure it does work well. We remain concerned about the speed of implementation at the busiest time of the year for colleges, with enrolment and induction underway of new students at the start of the academic year.”