The Ofsted chief denied that the system – which grades schools as either outstanding, good, requires improvement, or inadequate – required reform eleanormia reports
She said that “parents like the clarity and simplicity of the model” and that the gradings were used by the “wider system of school accountability that government operates”
“It’s not for us to say we’re going to fundamentally change the grading system, that would have to be a bigger government decision,” she added.
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