Ofsted Design and Technology Reports and Resources

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted reports directly to Parliament and is independent and impartial. They inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages.

The aim of all this work is to promote improvement and value for money in the services that they inspect and regulate, so that children and young people, parents and carers, adult learners and employers benefit.

Each week Ofsted carries out hundreds of inspections and regulatory visits throughout England, and publishes the results on its website. As a consequence of its work Ofsted has published annual reports on design and technology in primary and secondary schools and colleges.

Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI) have contributed findings to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector’s Annual Reports, which now publishes a major subject report for design and technology every three years. The reports on individual subject survey visits to schools are made available on the Ofsted website.

The collection in the elibrary contains design and technology-related reports and publications concerning primary and secondary schools.