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It takes a particular sort of genius to respond to criticism of unreliable judgments by having more judgements
Let me be clear on Ofsted inspections. I am not naïve to believe that all State provision for children and young people is functioning as well as we would all expect. The reasons for this are many but there are very few professionals who go to work wanting to be...
It is all rather self-congratulatory isn’t it?
This piece summarises my reaction to Ofsted’s recently published report evaluating the impact of the focus on the curriculum within the EIF.
Some thoughts on the proposed Ofsted inspection framework
My last day working for Ofsted was early September 2012. It coincided with the start of what became known as ‘Wilshaw’s Framework. It was a Framework I had led the team in developing, trialling (a little), creating training materials and managing the plethora of departmental and political challenges associated with this sort of work. In my time I had either led or been a senior team member in the creation or revision to six inspection frameworks across a number of remits. So, I am always interested in any new Ofsted framework.