A Nottingham teacher has said her "whole career" has been blighted by Ofsted. The education regulator has also been described as the "thorn in the side for teachers and education" by a leading union boss.
It comes as the National Education Union passes a motion to establish a new commission investigating the reliability of Ofsted’s judgements. At the NEU’s annual conference on Monday, April 11, members also voted to create a new inspection system for schools based on “collaborative support”.
Louise Regan, from Nottingham, said her “whole teaching career has been blighted by Ofsted” while Paul McGarr, representative for Tower Hamlets in London, said the research reviews published by Ofsted were “ideological position papers”. The union said Ofsted had never published research demonstrating its judgments accurately reflected the education schools were providing, while the inspectorate awarded “outstanding” grades to four times as many affluent secondary schools as deprived ones.
