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Richards, Colin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
Ofsted has always courted controversy. With the appointment of a strident new chief inspector its operations are likely to remain, or become increasingly, controversial. This article provides a detailed critique of key documents which describe the new inspection regime that for good or ill will have major consequences in schools. Although in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Public Agencies, Government Publications
Ball, Stephen J.; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to be "implemented" by schools. In response to this, a great deal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Educational Change, Educational Policy