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Ask A Professor: is there an alternative to Ofsted?
By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 18 December 2015
Ask A Professor is an occasional blog by UCL IOE academics. From now on it will appear as part of the IOE London blog.
A teacher at the London Festival of Education this past Autumn asked about the Green Party’s plans to abolish Ofsted. What would replace it or could we do without an inspection system?
In this audio clip Dr Melanie Ehren describes the work of Ofsted and explains why some teachers have called for its abolition. She compares it to other quality assurance systems in Europe and elsewhere, and discusses the impact of Ofsted on national policy making and on parental decision making. She is enthusiastic about the increasing sophistication of inspection in understanding the contribution of school networks to excellence in education.
