Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher

Richard Garner reported on the Sutton Trust/Carnegie summit for The Independent and The i newspapers

Too many secondary school heads are putting up with pupils whose uniforms were “all over the place”, teachers who prepared “scrappy” worksheets, noisy corridors and low-level disruption, he said.

He also said that independent schools should forfeit their charitable status if they refused to sponsor state-funded academies.

Meanwhile, the Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, called for the most talented teachers to be fast-tracked into headships as twenty-somethings.

Speaking at a conference organised by the Sutton Trust education charity in London on social mobility, he said too many people assumed you had to be 45 before you were deemed capable of running a secondary school. “I’d like to see able headteachers promoted swiftly,” he said.

Read his full report here