Accountability

We are accountable to governors and families – not Ofsted and league tables

If we can’t change ministers’ muscular activism, we can certainly control how it plays out in our schools, writes...

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Jon Coles
Accountability

Peer review can’t replace inspection – but it can inform it

The power of peer review depends on its being kept separate from the incentives and disincentives of formalised accountability,...

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Kate Chhatwal
Accountability

Safeguarding should matter to Ofsted as much as to schools

This week’s announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that Ofsted and the DfE get the impact accountability is having on headteachers,...

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Duncan Spalding
Accountability

What headteachers mean when they say headship has changed

It’s time policy makers and accountability caught up with the new reality of headship, explains Sam Strickland, so here’s...

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Sam Strickland
Accountability

Accountability must focus more on improving and less on approving

The thinking that brought about our current accountability system can’t get us out of the problems it has caused,...

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Les Walton
Accountability

Heads’ sharp practices to game Ofsted only raise the stakes

Analysing website traffic to predict Ofsted visits is only the latest form of gaming the system - and such...

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Seamus Murphy
Accountability

Spielman’s offer changes nothing for first and infant schools

Amanda Spielman’s plans to improve inspection are deaf to the framework’s inherent inequity and fall well short of what...

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David Scott
Accountability

High stakes? The fault is not in Ofsted but in ourselves

The biggest problem with Ofsted is the weight we attach to its reports, writes Hugh Greenway, and that’s within...

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Hugh Greenway
Accountability

Ofsted: A better system is possible and the DfE knows it

Colin Diamond sets out what the DfE might do to bring school inspection in line with high-performing systems –...

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Colin Diamond