Ofsted has been rubbish! Who says? The Head of Ofsted. Er... The recently appointed Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of schools in England. Er... What seems to be the problem?
Schools have become mere “exam factories”.
We know. It’s what Ofsted prescribed! Well, no more. It’s all change. Another one: “We should be ashamed that we have let such behaviour persist for so long,” says Spielman. Well, yes – for so very long.
Summer has seen many unprincipled U-turns, but none more vertiginous than this one. We spent nigh-on 30 years peddling this guff at gunpoint, ranting and raving that it shrank the soul – and now Amanda seems to agree. “To reduce education down to this kind of functionalist level is rather wretched.”
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