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Lords warning as Gove aims to exempt top schools from inspections

As the law of education is addressed in the Lords, Lord Hunt and Trevor Fisher warned that without Ofsted inspection, the school standards slip

Over the past two decades, while the English schools have suffered a permanent revolution of government initiatives, an institution has its critics. Ofsted - the Office for Standards in Education -. It was the guarantor of the accepted quality

For politicians, the press and public, research and reports from Ofsted inspectors have been the key to the understanding of how schools have done. Until this year, no politician would have thought the elimination of school inspectors from Ofsted.

Reputation

Ofsted success is based on the replacement of inspection systems to discredit the 1970s.

The scandal of William Tyndale School in Islington, where the children seem to learn something, and local authorities seem to be aware of the failures in school, has things to the head.

when the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan delivered his famous speech at Ruskin College, 1976, calling for reform, not even bother to tell the chief inspector would do. What was known as the "secret garden" would be inspected regularly and completely independent, and Ofsted was the result.

Ofsted has its roots in the belief that schools were walled up research and accountability. "Secret Garden" the term was invented in 1960 by the Conservative education secretary Sir David Eccles to express concern he does not know what happened in schools.

However, neither he nor his immediate successors wanted to direct intervention. Callaghan Ruskin speech has changed. The door in the "garden" was opened by subsequent governments actively intervene. The creation of Ofsted was the logical result.


Ofsted professors never encouraged, but their criticisms have fallen on deaf ears. Indeed, despite the reduction in the number of inspectors, leaving the rest stretched dangerously thin and challenged by having to take care of Social Services Inspectorate, Ofsted has never seriously lost credibility. It has become an essential tool for maintaining public confidence in national education.
At first glance, appear to be minor changes from one type of inspection will be maintained. What remains is the old inspection system operator Victorian allowed under Article 8 of the Education Act 2005. However, they have always been few and far between. These inspections Ofsted Section 5 of the 2005 Act that matter, and in these the Act amends the Act of 2005 on two crucial points. First, section (4A) provides that "The regulations may provide that this section does not apply to certain categories of schools in certain circumstances." This is ignored by section (4B), which states that "a school to which this section does not apply under the rules of subsection (4A) is a free school'".

The regulation does not specify schools or classes for which the exemption applies. In fact, the circumstances that lead schools to be removed from the inspection regime are not clear. All that is clear is that the Secretary of State makes these decisions. But the question we must ask, is in the public interest for all institutions to be exempt, so back to the secret garden?
Today is suggested that schools in grades 1, approved by Ofsted could be exempt from inspection. But no matter how good the class comes with a guarantee of continued success. Standards can and slides. In his report to the lords, Ofsted found that 31% of the outstanding graduate schools inspection not to maintain this standard at the next inspection. Since the ranking of the top allows inspections to be postponed, it is clear that almost a third of outstanding schools take their foot off the accelerator when the periodic inspection is not imminent. How much worse will the situation if they do not have a regular inspection at all


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