A year into her job Amanda Spielman is riding into battle on the subject of hijabs – but she doesn’t relish the limelight,she says
Should you be afraid of Ofsted?No chief inspector of schools got off to a stickier start than Amanda Spielman. The education select committee unsuccessfully opposed her appointment in 2016 because, it thought, and she lacked not just teaching experience but “passion”.“It is not a job where you simply throw opinions around,” she told the MPs. When one committee member said the chief inspector should be “a crusader for tall aspirations and standards”, she replied that “when you start crusading you can often lose track of … objectivity, and honesty and integrity”. She does not regret that comment. “The final thing a chief inspector should be is a crusader,” she tells me when we meet at Ofsted’s headquarters in London. “I think the sector is pretty exhausted by an awful lot of crusader language.”Continue reading...
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