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I can't see how old the author is but my son's primary school got 24hrs notice of their last inspection a coule of years back. A ex-teacher friend 10 years ago

I can't see how old the author is but my son's primary school got 24hrs notice of their last inspection a coule of years back. A ex-teacher friend 10 years ago told me it was a lot less than a week's notice for her larger secondary. I'm sure some details are gameable, but what I'm more interested in are the inspectors' incentives, not just the schools'.

timthorn 6y ago
The author's experiences are historic. In 2012, the notice period for inspections was reduced to the afternoon before the inspectors turned up, but prior to that it could be several weeks: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-education-inspections-announced https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-education-insp... The London Challenge was implemented to turn around the issues in London schools that the author recounts, and did so remarkably successfully: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Challeng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Challeng