According to the Ofsted annual report from last academic year,
in fact, private schools have achieved better results than state schools.
Education Secretary
Michael Gove has answered to the inspectors of schools in England by saying:
“We have looked at those schools that have been inspected under a new,
tighter inspection regime and teachers
in state schools are more qualified than ever before.
“The reason why we are changing the education system by taking independent, fee-paying schools and
making them state schools is because we need to make our society more equal”.
The same report has also highlighted
that schools located in particular regions of the country, like rural and
coastal areas, are under-achieving.
According to Ofsted inspectors,
those schools are not doing well because of a lack of challenge from teachers,
head teachers, governing boards and local authority in those specific
areas.
“The unlucky child goes to a school with low expectations, where
governance is poor and local authority does not know its school particularly
well,” said Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw.
Her Majesty's Chief
Inspector of Schools in England also declared:
“I won’t accept and our Country should not accept leaders of our
schools, governing bodies and leaders of our schools to have low expectations on children just
because they are poor or come from a particular culture. That is wrong”.
“We got to particularly focused upon the achievement levels of white
British children from low income backgrounds who are doing poorest of all. What
we have got to do is to highlight those areas which are stuck and are not
improving at a rate that others are. (...) Ofsted itself will ensure that we focus on those areas more than we’ve ever
done,” he added.
Education has been one
of the busiest ministries of the last four years, introducing free schools, reforming
the exam system and the curriculum.
The great challenge now, is to ensure that
the good leadership is spread more widely throughout our country.
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