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‘Old white men have dominated Ofsted’s history: we shouldn’t be surprised by the gender pay gap’
With a new report highlighting the gender pay gap within Ofsted, one former inspector reflects on the discrimination that has blighted school inspection since the very beginning
6 March 2018
‘Ofsted must be careful not to lose all its credibility in early years’
The response to Ofsted’s early years report last week suggests that the inspectorate has made a major miscalculation
4 December 2017
‘Without any sense of irony, the chief inspector criticises schools for “a weak theoretical understanding of the curriculum”’
One former inspector asks: How much value does the already narrowing curriculum have if it’s only local-authority schools that are required to follow it?
17 October 2017
The primary curriculum: ‘Where has Ofsted been all this time?’
A former senior Ofsted inspector is delighted that the inspectorate has woken up to its own impact on the curriculum in the primary phase – but worries that it’s too little, too late
11 October 2017
‘Tests for four-year-olds as soon as they start school are harmful’
The government is ploughing on with its attempts to introduce baseline assessment – ignoring the fact that it’s impossible to develop a fair test for children of that age, writes one former primary teacher and inspector
19 September 2017
‘It’s time for Ofsted to stop giving a school’s teaching and learning an overall grade’
Ofsted no longer grades individual lessons – now it’s time for it to stop doing likewise for a whole school, writes one former inspector
13 September 2017
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