Possibly faculties ought to deal with Ofsted inspectors (Letters, 30 April) to a few of their very own drugs as we did. Once they got here to my very racially numerous city complete college, all workers had been issued with brilliant yellow kinds on which to file each inspector’s go to to a category, and any interplay with college students or workers in the course of the lesson. This was achieved fairly overtly, so Ofsted knew what was taking place.
Interviews with heads of division and senior workers outdoors the classroom had been audio-recorded. College students knew what was taking place and closed ranks towards the perceived “enemy”. Behaviour was exemplary, they usually all praised the varsity to the skies.
The pinnacle was capable of problem any judgment made – for instance, by saying: “However you solely noticed 10 minutes of that class/yr/topic, so how will you make a judgment?”
Ofsted later instructed the varsity that it had made inspectors very uneasy and it ensured that they needed to again up any criticism. They had been additionally cautious to offer reward the place due. Evidently, the varsity was judged to be “excellent” – however all of us knew that anyway.
Anne Johns
Derby
