Playing the game: Ofsted vs. Civitas
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin On the face of it, this seems both self-evident and obvious: if Ofsted aren't judging quality of teaching in a school, what are they doing? Now, I'm not one of those who feel Ofsted is a cancer needing to be cut out of the education corpse, but I do feel that along with the good they might have done in holding failing schools to account, they've done a lot of harm along the way. A new report from Civitas, Playing the Game The enduring influence of the preferred [...]