Day 2 of our NTU School of Social Sciences #S3Showcase24 parallel session 9 began with a provocative examination of our education inspectors where Rachel Harding asked ‘What ‘is’ the point of Ofsted? Rachel argued the current regime disrupts the dynamics of dialogue, opportunities and identity.

Today's #MomentOfBeauty video shows caterpillar on a path

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📢 Today The Children's Society publish The #GoodChildhood Report 2024, revealing a deeply worrying picture around wellbeing and happiness amongst UK teens. Read it here: bit.ly/GCR24 ⚠ For over a decade, these reports have been a damning indictment of the low wellbeing

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Nice to have a different view of #Nottingham from #ColwickWoods

Thrilled to have supported the Government’s decision to drop single-word judgements… gov.uk/government/new…

As Paul Whiteman and Jason Elsom say, scrapping the headline gradings of 'outstanding/good/requires improvement/inadequate' is a good start gov.uk/government/new…

Ruth Perry’s sister, Professor Julia Waters, said her family was “delighted and relieved” headline grades had been scrapped. But she said headline grades were “just the most visible feature of a fundamentally flawed inspection system”. schoolsweek.co.uk/headline-ofste…

Today's #MomentOfBeauty picture shows a squirrel on a tree branch holding an apple core in its mouth

Ofsted: what scrapping single-word inspection grades will mean for teachers, by Dr Andrew Clapham and Rachel Harding of NTU School of Social Sciences Rachel Harding #OFSTED theconversation.com/ofsted-what-sc…

Really pleased to have had this approved for publication with the brilliant Associate Professor Andy Clapham of Nottingham Trent University Institute of Education NTU School of Social Sciences and thanks to NTU Press Office for meeting so quickly this morning theconversation.com/ofsted-what-sc…

Ofsted: what scrapping single-word inspection grades will mean for teachers bit.ly/4cUqKua

BBC News - Ofsted complacent after head's death, says review bbc.com/news/articles/…

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