Ofsted inspections to be higher stakes: for inspectors!
May 28, 2015
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.Sometimes life takes a surreal twist. In January 2014 I predicted Ofsted would stop grading lessons within a maximum of two years. I was wrong. Grades had been scrapped by June the same yearGrades had been scrapped by June the same year! I then got a call from Sean Harford to cast eye over the new Inspection Handbook and was stunned to find that all my advice had been taken on board.
Mathew 7:7
Now today, after suggesting for some time that inspectors need to be held to great account, I find that it is indeed so. If you haven't seen it yet, this TES article retells the story.
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