Ofsted inspectors make U-turn on 'Trojan Horse' school, leak shows

by Guest Sat May 31, 2014 11:59 am

Ofsted's first inspection of Park View academy – at the centre of the Trojan Horse allegations of an Islamist plot – cleared the school of allegations of discrimination and retained its "outstanding" rating, according to a leaked draft of the inspector's recommendations seen by the Guardian.
The results of that initial inspection were rejected just a few days later when Ofsted inspectors re-entered the school and overturned their initial findings, replacing a string of relatively minor recommendations with more severe criticism that could see it placed in special measures as early as next week.
The revelation is the latest twist in the so-called "Trojan Horse" saga, which has seen claims of Islamist plots to take over schools inBirmingham turn into a political row that has engulfed the education secretary, Michael Gove, Ofsted chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, Birmingham city council and Britain's former senior anti-terror policeman, recruited by Gove as a special education commissioner.
At the centre of the saga is Park View, a school rated by Ofsted as outstanding as recently as 2012 and praised by Wilshaw for its extraordinary exam success, despite having 60% of its pupils eligible for free school meals – three times the national average – in a deprived, heavily Muslim part of Birmingham.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/30/ofsted-u-turn-trojan-horse-park-view-school-leak

by Guest Sat May 31, 2014 5:44 pm

SO...is there ...or is there not a problem with these schools???

by Guest Sat May 31, 2014 6:52 pm

And is there a problem with inspections?

My answer to both is yes.

We need snap inspections, not namby pamby inspections a week after a letter has been sent giving warning.

We need teachers to be interviewed in private along with the inspections too.

by Ben Reilly Sat May 31, 2014 7:38 pm

So within a span of mere days, they go from "no problem" to "special measures need to be taken"?

REEKS of politics.

by Guest Sat May 31, 2014 8:48 pm

yeah Ben, and thats part of the problem....

the "progressives" presumably wanted a cover up job doing...but clearly they got caught with their hands "in the till" so to speak...

openness and honesty even when its "uncomfortable" would avoid a lot of the problems, and it is problems exactly like this that are driving voters into the arms of UKIP and worse...

as I have said now a few times...IF by any means we do get an extreme R/W govt in this country, the fault will lie squarely on the shoulders of the progressives here

by Ben Reilly Sat May 31, 2014 8:54 pm

victorisnotamused wrote:yeah Ben, and thats part of the problem....

the "progressives" presumably wanted a cover up job doing...but clearly they got caught with their hands "in the till" so to speak...

openness and honesty even when its "uncomfortable" would avoid a lot of the problems, and it is problems exactly like this that are driving voters into the arms of UKIP and worse...

as I have said now a few times...IF by any means we do get an extreme R/W govt in this country, the fault will lie squarely on the shoulders of the progressives here

You make a lot of assumptions there -- it certainly could also be read as a thorough, lengthy investigation finding no wrongdoing, someone getting upset about that and within days changing the report to, "Oh no, there's all sorts of problems!" Maybe because the initial report was leaked and the British Anti-Islam League all got on their phones and computers ...

by Guest Sat May 31, 2014 9:11 pm

unlikely since ofsted is definitely and firmly "part of the establishment"

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