Sorry but I just can’t bring myself to write much about this. I am recording it here for posterity really. Just wanted to record the moment in England’s education history when satisfactory wasn’t … wasn’t satisfactory I mean. This from the BBC Education News. I had to go to the […]
This morning I stated reading the BBC news as I lay in bed … iP*ds are wonderful things … and picked up on an article about a report concerning ICT and Ofsted. It seemed to suggest that ‘we’ had got it all wrong … that is the teachers/schools/education system had. […]
In the big quango cut Ofsted have survived … It is not that inspection (a really bad word for what should be happening) is, in itself, a poor idea it is just that it needed more than just a spruce up and a refit. It needed a real ‘Are you […]
Becta have just put up on their site a summary of the key points of the Ofsted Report – The safe use of new technologies. (Thanks to Neil Adam for the ‘heads up’ about this) The summary highlights the five themes: Internet filtering Curriculum Staff training and engagement Policy Beyond the […]
The current Ofsted framework for inspection has many clear pointers to the perceived importance of ‘safeguarding’ (children in a digital world). Details can be found here. Many schools well aware of their responsibilities have long had robust AUPs in place as well as extensive education programmes supporting the sensible and […]
Shifting sand … From the Guardian today: Ofsted is facing a crisis in public confidence as it comes under a series of attacks on its authority this week, with the watchdog accused of being “flawed, wasteful and failing”. Are we surprised by this … is this a ‘quango’ moment? Remember […]