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Recent articles featuring Frank

Frank has appeared in a variety of media outlets including the likes of the BBC, Tes and Schools Week.

Recent articles and appearances

7 November 2024

Score Cards/Report cards, an opportunity or a problem or both?

1 November 2024

Former Ofsted inspectors call for urgent renewal of its governance

11 October 2024

Rethinking school accountability – the Schools North East Podcast

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11 September 2024

‘Toxic’ Ofsted left teachers and inspectors ‘distressed and burnt out’, say insiders

31 August 2024

Accountability: Ofsted have listened – but have they heard?

14 June 2024

Labour’s Ofsted report cards: How they could work, and the hurdles

16 December 2023

Strictest academy schools in England suspend 30 times more pupils than the national average

28 November 2023

Why I’m involved with Innovate Her

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20 October 2023

Only local and independent oversight can deliver inclusion

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22 September 2023

Incoming Ofsted chief accused of misleading MPs over exclusions

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22 September 2023

4 in 10 senior Ofsted inspectors have never been a head

8 September 2023

‘Rethinking school inspection: is there a better way?’: book review

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27 August 2023

‘Children without a bed aren’t going to be interested in school’: can England’s north-south education divide be repaired?

13 January 2023

Revealed: How Ofsted reports show shifting focus for schools

8 January 2023

Review of ‘How to move and Learn’ by Bryn Llewellyn

15 December 2022

Response to Education Policy Institute report

1 December 2022

Students need to experience the world of work

26 October 2022

Delighted to be an advisory board member for this important social mobility report

3 May 2022

Album Review: Reina Del Cid – Candy Apple Red

27 April 2022

#TrustLeaders ‘In The Loop’. April 2022 – Forum Strategy’s Podcast

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13 January 2022

Frank Norris supports Sheffield Hallam’s Grow mentoring programme

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6 January 2022

Appearance on the Times Radio

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10 August 2021

A-level results day 2021: North-South education divide will plague results next year without investment

25 June 2021

Northern schools: the truth behind the myths

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26 February 2021

‘Impossible, messy and meaningless’: Teachers react to news they will set grades

25 February 2021

BBC Radio Leeds coverage on exams and returning to face to face teaching on 8 March

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25 February 2021

BBC Radio Teeside coverage on exams and returning to face to face teaching on 8 March

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16 December 2020

Ethical Leadership in Times of Challenge – Frank Norris and Stan Johnson podcast

6 November 2020

Covid ‘shines light on inappropriate’ Ofsted

27 October 2020

GCSEs: Scrap exams or risk a fiasco, North warns DfE

27 October 2020

Afternoons on BBC Radio Tees

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30 September 2020

Improving housing could be the hidden key to improving education

13 September 2020

Coronavirus: The story of the big U-turn of the summer

29 October 2019

Northern schools ‘penalised by Progress 8 tables’

23 July 2019

MATs should be inspected, but it isn’t going to happen any time soon

1 August 2019

Ofsted ‘praises the wrong schools’, says academy boss

2 February 2019

What the new Ofsted framework says about the curriculum

23 April 2019

‘Progress 8 is biased and fundamentally flawed’

27 October 2014

Academy trust ‘backs Ofsted inspections’

23rd April 2019

‘Flawed Progress 8 is costing school leaders their jobs’

14 October 2018

How the Co-op tackled a school with terrible truancy

15 September 2019

Academy rebrokerage process needs reform, says departing trust boss

2 October 2018

School’s Week profile

15 September 2019

Academy rebrokerage process needs reform, says departing trust boss

Tes profile

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