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The National Education Union’s State of Education survey highlights the extent to which teachers, support staff and school leaders continue to be dissatisfied with Ofsted and its inspectors.
One respondent said that the approach of inspectors continues to be ‘abrasive and rude, despite recent training’.
Another argued that the inspection system ‘feels nakedly political’, and that the best interests of pupils is defined by the Government, meaning it can never be objective’, so the ‘whole system is flawed’.
Almost 6,000 teachers, support staff and school leaders took part in the NEU’s survey into Ofsted ahead of its annual conference in Bournemouth.
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