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Teachers union slam Ofsted's ‘Nandos-style’ gradings
A general view of a sign displaying a ‘good’ Ofsted rating outside St Luke's CE Primary School in Tower Hamlets, London
OFSTED’S new “Nandos-style” ratings and the former watchdog’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman’s peerage were slammed at the National Education Union’s annual conference today.
Delegates said the inspectorate’s complaints procedures remained “Kafkaesque” as they backed a motion calling her admission to the House of Lords an “insult.”
Ms Spielman was Ofsted’s chief inspector when head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life after an inspection in January 2023 after learning that her school, Caversham Primary School in Berkshire, was to be downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate.”
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