Access to best teaching is down to luck, says Ofsted

The uneven quality of schools across the country means England is a nation divided into “lucky and unlucky children” in terms of access to high-quality teaching, and poverty is no longer a predictor of educational failure, the head of Ofsted will argue today . Launching his annual report card, the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, will hail reforms to inner-city education in London, Manchester and Newcastle. He will say some of the least fortunate pupils are going to poorly performing schools in the relatively affluent home counties and the east of England. The Ofsted chief is expected to say that in effect an “educational lottery” consigns children in some parts of the country to study in substandard schools. Wilshaw, the former head of an academy in Hackney, east London, will say: “Children from similar backgrounds with similar abilities but who are born in different regions and attend different schools end up with widely different prospects because the quality of their education is not consistently good.” Ofsted’s data is to show that seven of the best performing local authorities are in London, with the likes of Tower Hamlets in the East End boasting schools that have all been judged… Read full this story

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