Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s autocratic curriculum experiment has failed

Over the years, Ofsted’s role has shifted from ‘aiming to improve lives by raising standards in education and children’s...

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Meena Kumari Wood and Adrian Lyons
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted complaints procedures are a cause for concern

Our experience shows a regulator so intent on being right, it simply can’t admit to getting it wrong, writes...

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Nick Osborne
Opinion: Accountability

ITT reforms could spell the beginning of the end for Ofsted

Despite concessions, schools and ITE providers remain at risk from the ITT market reforms and the organisation who will...

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DAVID SPENDLOVE
Opinion: Accountability

Why ‘outstanding’ leaders must prioritise pupil wellbeing

New research points to a link between ‘outstanding’ ratings and poorer pupil wellbeing. Daniel Muijs sets out what that...

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DANIEL MUIJS
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted reform is needed now to rebuild trust in inspections

Our letter stops short of calling for Ofsted to be scrapped, writes Colin Richards, but reform is required now...

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COLIN RICHARDS
Opinion: Accountability

The error in claiming an Ofsted ‘reign of terror’

These challenging times are not a reason to fear inspectors but an opportunity to seek their validation of our...

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MOHSEN OJJA
Opinion: Accountability

Two years on, how has Ofsted’s inspection framework fared?

Its first two years have been marked by unprecedented disruption, write Jeffery Quaye and Mary Myatt, but the 2019...

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DR JEFFERY QUAYE and MARY MYATT
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s maths research review could lead to poorer teaching

School leaders and teachers for tips to improve maths teaching would do better to follow the national curriculum’s principles,...

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ANNE WATSON AND JENNI BACK