Call for ‘misleading’ Ofsted inspection grades to be scrapped

TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT - 5th APRIL 2019

Ofsted should stop giving schools potentially misleading overall inspection grades, according to a new education thinktank. EDSK said today that Ofsted has never produced research to demonstrate that the grades awarded to schools are “fair and accurate”. It warned that thousands of schools could have received the wrong grade because research shows that different inspectors can reach different judgements about the same school.

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05/04/2019