Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
Labour replaces a simple but controversial system with a complex, clunky one
WHEN IT TOOK office Labour promised to “reset” relations with England’s unhappy teachers. Last autumn it earned a huge cheer from the profession when it announced that Ofsted, the school inspectorate, would stop handing institutions blunt overall grades (such as “Requires improvement”, and “Inadequate”). Yet the fuzzy feelings evaporated on February 3rd, when the government and Ofsted released fuller details of their plans to change how schools are monitored. Furious unions say the new regime looks even worse than what has come before.
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