Opinion: Accountability

What’s in a name? Why Ofsted should do away with set descriptors 

New evaluative terms like 'Exemplary' and 'Causing concern' will be just as stifling and soon just as toxic as...

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Colin Richards
Opinion: Accountability

What Chicago taught us about making schools more inclusive

A pilot programme building on the US city’s 5Essentials framework has provided our schools with powerful new ways to...

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Unity Jones
Opinion: Accountability

How Labour can fix accountability to drive the inclusion it wants

Curriculum and inspection reforms offer hope of fixing our dysfunctional system - but only if new metrics also promote...

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Caroline Barlow
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted already has a proven model of better inspections

Ofsted’s reforms could yet prove successful if the inspectorate is able to learn from its own best practice and...

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Kerry Boffey
Opinion: Accountability

Two years on, why we still fight for Ruth’s legacy

For all the talk of reform, it isn't clear Ofsted has learned any real lessons from Ruth Perry's death

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Edmund Barnett-Ward
Opinion: Accountability

How our new equity scorecard is helping schools close the gaps

The equity scorecard is already being piloted in schools and the feedback is overwhelmingly positive

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Lee Elliot Major OBE and Matthew Shanks
Opinion: Accountability

Accountability can’t rely on our current progress measures

Any reform of school accountability must include changing a headline measure that acts as a perverse incentive

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Frank Norris and Jonny Uttley
Opinion: Accountability

The five W’s of developing your equality and diversity charter

This student-led document now sets out everyone’s responsibilities to ensure all our schools support equality and celebrate diversity

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Janet Sheriff OBE
Opinion: Accountability

Primary Ofsted reports show Labour’s plans are at risk

Analysis of the first 200 primary reports this term shows Ofsted is not ready to be a constructive partner...

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David Scott