{"id":28524,"date":"2020-01-08T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=28524"},"modified":"2020-01-08T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:00:19","slug":"poorly-performing-schools-by-ofsted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/poorly-performing-schools-by-ofsted\/","title":{"rendered":"415 poorly performing schools identified by Ofsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ofsted identified 415 poorly performing schools based on recent inspection rating.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rating poorly performing schools<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) identified 415\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;stuck&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">schools from its recent quality inspection on schools all across the UK.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The poorly performing schools that Ofsted branded as &#8220;<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">stuck&#8221;<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0are schools that went to at least four annual inspections and hadn&#8217;t achieve a single passing rating.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What concerns the education ministry is that within the 415\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;stuck&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">schools mentioned, there are 200,000 pupils under their watch. There are at least 13 years of poor quality education handed out by these schools, and this is despite the constant follow-ups from central and local government.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/education-news\/ofsted-report-underperforming-schools-pupils-dumping-ground-deprived-areas-research-a9274091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ofsted noticed that most of the unproductive schools are from deprived and isolated areas<\/a> of the UK.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Factors that affect poorly performing schools include congested student population, geographical isolation, low support from the parents and the community, and staff recruitment problems.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But according to the Chief Inspector of schools in the UK, Amanda Spielman:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The majority of the schools in difficult areas are already keeping up with providing quality education. What other schools need are tailored, specific, and pragmatic guidelines that match their circumstances.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Creating difficulties rather than uplifting schools<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dr. Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/labour-party-wants-to-scrap-ofsted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Education Union (NEU), lambasted school watchdogs like Ofsted for contributing difficulties through constant criticisms<\/a> against struggling schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Instead of uplifting troubled schools, what Ofsted does is selectively hit on struggling schools without thinking about the repercussions of their criticisms.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The general secretary pointed out that despite the efforts done by struggling schools in terms of student progress, Ofsted unfairly degrades their efforts that eventually create disorientation within the school system.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When a school receives negative reports, teachers and other education staff will less likely consider working with that school. The cause-effect of blunt judgment on a school causes a stigma, which makes it harder for them to recruit teachers and school leaders essential in achieving better quality education.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ofsted responded by asking the government to fund more school inspections on the identified poorly performing schools. This time, the agency is looking forward to looking into loopholes on how to support and help improve standards in these schools, instead of passing judgment on their current education system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofsted identified 415 poorly performing schools based on recent inspection rating. Rating poorly performing schools The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) identified 415\u00a0&#8220;stuck&#8221;\u00a0schools from its recent quality inspection on schools all across the UK. The poorly performing schools that Ofsted branded as &#8220;stuck&#8221;\u00a0are schools that went to at least four annual inspections and hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":28530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}