NASUWT Response To Teacher Inspection Survey

9 April 2009

Commenting on the survey of teachers' attitudes to inspection, carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union in the UK, said:

"Not surprisingly every survey commissioned by OFSTED about OFSTED shows a superficial support for inspections in one way or another.

"The devil is always in the detail of these surveys.

"The survey states that 84% of teachers think it is important that their lessons are observed by inspectors. That doesn't mean they like inspection, it means that they expect to be held accountable. OFSTED is clutching at straws in seeking to claim otherwise.

"What we do know is that inspections place unbearable pressure on teachers and that recent changes to the inspection regime have increased the culture of fear and simply transferred unacceptable scrutiny of teachers' work from external inspectors to school leaders."

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