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Regional secretary with the National Education Union
Pushing Back to Ofsted by Richard House
Riposte to an inspection that closed a Gloucestershire school

IN DEDICATING his book Pushing Back to Ofsted to “the country’s brilliant teachers” who labour under “unnecessary and demoralising regimes of compliance and fear,” Richard House informs us who really suffers through the hellish imposition of Ofsted.

Teachers, certainly, but ultimately the children who should be learning and growing in brainpower in our schools.

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