NEO is pursuing Online Education Accreditation Scheme (OEAS) accreditation only — not DfE registration as an independent school, not ISI inspection. This is the route to DfE recognition for online provision.
The four anchor tags
[[oeas/curriculum-breadth]]— coverage across the curriculum areas required by OEAS[[oeas/curriculum-balance]]— appropriate weighting and pacing across the offer[[oeas/curriculum-rigour]]— depth and demand of teaching, evidenced through outcomes and assessment[[oeas/teaching-quality]]— observed and evidenced quality of live and asynchronous delivery
Use in the vault
Every node that helps NEO evidence an OEAS criterion should carry the relevant OEAS tag, so that a single tag query produces the audit pack on demand. The OEAS audit pages live on the private side of the hybrid vault (schema §8.2) and are not published to the public Quartz site.
Anchor in T&L Policy
See Teaching and Learning Policy v04.26 §1 — “This policy aligns with OEAS accreditation criteria relating to curriculum and teaching quality.”