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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams Education editor

Ofsted fuelling ‘football manager culture’ of firing school heads, says report

Pupils and teacher in school classroom
The IPPR report says ‘over-reliance on punitive control’ is driving teachers out of the profession and preventing schools from making real improvements. Photograph: monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Ofsted is contributing to a “football manager culture” of firing headteachers to improve results and needs to be overhauled to help schools improve, according to the latest criticisms aimed at England’s schools inspectorate.

A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said an “over-reliance on punitive control” was driving teachers out of the profession and distracting schools from making real improvements.

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