WE would like to offer our sympathies to all those hard-working teachers who have recently had to endure an observation grilling.

As a result WE have put together a list of reasons why observations, at least in their current form, make little sense:
1. They lack objectivity because objectivity is unattainable. The mere selection of criteria with [...]

Recent lighter-touch inspection regimes have been welcomed by some but we believe such a welcome would have been less warm if the true impact had been known. For it appears that Ofsted inspections have been replaced with institution-led inspections.

Whereas in the past we may have expected observations to be in-house and free of [...]