Ofsted should have no contact with schools, which should instead conduct “self evaluation”, an inquiry set up to find a new inspectorate model has proposed.
Beyond Ofsted, chaired by former schools minister Lord Jim Knight and sponsored by the National Education Union (NEU), launched in April to “develop a set of principles for underpinning a better school inspection system”.
Recommendations, published today, follow criticism of the supposedly independent inquiry after it published a biased survey earlier this month which was heavily critical of the inspectorate.
Knight said today’s proposals were “designed to restore trust and address the intensification of leader and teacher workload, while reforming a system which is ineffective in its role of school improvement”.
