New OFSTED Measures

23/06/06

Commenting on the new proportionate inspection proposals from OFSTED, Steve Sinnott General secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching Union said:

“ The only effect of OFSTED’s proposals to increase monitoring for schools judged satisfactory will be to increase stress and pressure on school staff.

“Combined with the Government’s proposals to increase local authority monitoring powers, teachers and head teachers will believe that they can’t move without inspectors looking over their shoulders.

“Increasing punitive inspections rather than support for schools will simply lead to many teachers and head teachers asking whether it is worth staying in teaching”