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• Ofsted boss rejects calls to pause school inspections

  24-03-2023 18:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Schools had urged the move after Ruth Perry took her life following her school being rated "inadequate".
  
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• The inspector: Ofsted is vital – but not its culture of hitting targets at any cost

  24-03-2023 18:30
  
  HMIs understand the pressures schools are under but the same can’t be said of Ofsted’s chief and her advisersPunishing Ofsted regime is driving us out of education, say school leadersA school leader recently asked me: “Do people in Ofsted not understand the pressures schools are under?” Coming after an academic year when Ofsted made little allowance for the impact of Covid in schools, the final straw for many was Ofsted continuing to inspect schools last year in the final
  
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• The ex-headteacher: school leaders need support, not punitive Ofsted judgments

  24-03-2023 18:30
  
  My colleague describes the buildup to inspection as ‘a form of prolonged torture waiting for public trial and execution’Punishing Ofsted regime is driving us out of education, say school leadersSchool conversations have been dominated by one word: Ofsted. And what a range of feelings that word evokes. As a former headteacher who continues to work with school leaders, my feelings are complex.I believe it is right that anyone in a public sector position is held to account. For those of
  
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• Punishing Ofsted regime is driving us out of education, say school leaders

  24-03-2023 18:30
  
  Senior teachers in England blame culture of fear and high stress for damaging their health and careersAs Caversham parents, Ruth Perry’s death has opened our eyes to the realities of Ofsted inspectionsSchool leaders in England say they are being driven out of the profession by Ofsted’s punishing inspection regime, blaming a culture of fear and high stress for damaging their health and careers.Senior teachers who spoke to the Guardian reported harrowing cases of “overwhelming pa
  
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• As Caversham parents, Ruth Perry’s death has opened our eyes to the realities of Ofsted inspections | Chris Cutmore

  24-03-2023 18:30
  
  Parents don’t want a ‘summary judgment’ on schools – we just want to know teachers truly care. And it’s impossible to imagine someone more dedicated to their school than Mrs Perry wasPunishing Ofsted regime is driving us out of education, say school leadersWhen my daughter had finished her final day at nursery in Reading last summer we strolled home through the park, my wife and I blinking through quiet tears. We were sad because we knew it was the end of our childr
  
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• Teachers and pupils live in fear of Ofsted’s punitive inspections. It needs reforming now | Rebecca Leek

  24-03-2023 09:57
  
  We’re not afraid of scrutiny and we all want to make our schools better – but this process is not the way to help children thrive• Rebecca Leek is executive director of Suffolk Primary Headteachers’ AssociationOfsted is younger than me. And yet, for those of us who have been in education for a couple of decades, the inspection regime is part of the furniture. Its presence permeates school classrooms, offices, staffrooms and corridors. The idea of it not being around seems
  
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• ‘It broke the link’: how the pandemic disrupted children’s relationship with school

  24-03-2023 08:00
  
  One in five pupils in England were reported as persistently absent during the last school year Anne’s daughter is just nine, but feels constantly overwhelmed by school. Like many children, she found the pandemic very difficult, her mother explains. “She would stop talking for periods of time – we’d find her curled up and feeling low. I don’t think she’s ever really recovered from that.”The nine-year-old struggled with returning to her primary school, and
  
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• Recovery flat to help Birmingham students battling addiction

  24-03-2023 07:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The University of Birmingham has started the project in its student village.
  
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• Schools’ Stem diversity problem needs systemic solution, say MPs

  24-03-2023 06:01
  
  Report finds students from black Caribbean backgrounds in England ‘acutely’underrepresented in StemChildren and young people from black Caribbean backgrounds are “acutely” underrepresented in the study of maths, science and technology in England at all levels of education, according to a report by MPs.Fewer black Caribbean students studied triple science than students of any other background, the report said. It also highlighted the lack of diversity in the teaching workf
  
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• Gillian Keegan urged to not let culture wars weaken sex education

  24-03-2023 01:01
  
  Organisations write to education secretary before review, saying England’s schools have vital role in tackling misogyny and abuseDozens of organisations and charities have written to the education secretary, amid fears that sex education in England may become a casualty of the culture wars.More than 50 organisations concerned with education and tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) have written to Gillian Keegan to urge her to resist the “politicisation” of sex educa
  
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• ‘Deeply sorry’ Ofsted chief rejects call for halt in inspections after head’s death

  24-03-2023 01:01
  
  After Ruth Perry’s family demand urgent review, Amanda Spielman says she is open to debate about grading Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of schools in England, said she was “deeply sorry” over the death of Berkshire headteacher Ruth Perry, and backed “legitimate” debate over how Ofsted inspects schools in the future.But Spielman, in her first public comments since Perry’s family attributed her death to a harsh Ofsted judgment, rejected calls by local auth
  
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