It is hard these days to imagine an education system without Ofsted. Over the past 20 years, a whole generation of teachers has entered the profession never having known their working life free of the fear and trepidation of an inspection.
As one senior HMI put it, before Ofsted a teacher could shut the classroom door on the world on their first day and keep it so for the next 40 years.
Two decades on from its inception, an analysis has been carried out of Ofsted’s performance in the intervening years and its effect on schools, the teaching profession and the education system as a whole.
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