Is Keir right to scrap one-word Ofsted verdicts?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Also on the podcast, we have had the official launches of several Tory leadership campaigns in the last few days. What's the latest?
Oscar Edmondson speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Oscar Edmondon and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls. |
| 0:31.3 | So it's back to school day for kids up and down the country and also back to school |
| 0:35.4 | for our politicians who've returned from summer recess. And to celebrate |
| 0:39.3 | Kiasdarma has announced some changes to Ofsted inspections. They've notably scrapped the one-word |
| 0:44.8 | classification system. Fraser, is this the right move? |
| 0:48.0 | Well, it all depends what's going to replace it. I mean, the concern, of course course is that Labour would weaken the inspections |
| 0:53.5 | regime which is there for the benefit of pupils and the benefit of parents when |
| 0:56.8 | choosing schools. I'm quite alarmed at the way the narrative has been framed |
| 1:01.5 | around this. I mean obviously people have been looking |
| 1:04.0 | at a tragic case of the head teacher took her own life after she was given a negative |
| 1:09.9 | of stead review and but you know the BBC will send you an alert on your phone saying the |
| 1:14.7 | the family of the brief family of the head teacher is welcoming this move almost as if |
| 1:19.6 | you're looking at the future for education through its isolated instance. |
| 1:23.6 | Typically in journalism you don't describe motive to suicide as one of these ethical things about |
| 1:28.0 | reporting because when you look at each of these cases there can be various complicated factors |
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