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Ofsted must routinely inspect outstanding schools too
In what Ofsted has hailed as some of the most radical changes to school inspection in England in its history, the schools regulator has published the results of a consultation into changes due to be introduced from September 2015. It is a pity that it has given no ground on its original proposals, but its current stance does at least represent a welcome cultural shift compared with previous policy – though not as great as some of us would wish. Most disappointing is that Ofsted has decided not to routinely inspect those schools it judges to be outstanding. Outstanding schools stand to benefit from dialogue with skilled inspectors who can disseminate information and insights into "good" practice. They should be inspected not in order to prescribe authoritatively what improvement should look like, but so as to inform even these outstanding schools about other possibilities. Inspectors need to routinely visit outstanding schools so they have the full range of experience on the basis of which to calibrate their judgements of all the schools they inspect. Ofsted's response to questions raised in its consultation about this is short-sighted, concluding: "Any change of approach would require legislative change. As a result, we will continue not inspecting outstanding schools routinely, although we retain the powers to inspect if performance drops or other concerns are raised."
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April Fool's Interview: Alan Alborough and Colin Richards in conversation, 1 April 1996
In: Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, Band 1997, Heft 6-7, S. 44-49
Rethinking the Neolithic
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 807
Architecture and order: approaches to social space
In: Material cultures
Fragments from Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 632
ISSN: 1467-9655
Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 988
Islands of History:the late Neolithic timescapes of Orkney
In: Richards , C , Whittle , A , Bayliss , A & Marshall , P 2017 , ' Islands of History : the late Neolithic timescapes of Orkney ' , Antiquity , vol. 91 , no. 359 , pp. 1171-1188 . https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.140
Orkney is internationally recognised for its exceptionally well-preserved Neolithic archaeology. The chronology of the Orcadian Neolithic is, however, relatively poorly defined. The authors analysed a large body of radiocarbon and luminescence dates, formally modelled in a Bayesian framework, to address the timescape of Orkney's Late Neolithic. The resultant chronology for the period suggests differences in the trajectory of social change between the 'core' (defined broadly as the World Heritage site) and the 'periphery' beyond. Activity in the core appears to have declined markedly from c. 2800 cal BC, which, the authors suggest, resulted from unsustainable local political tensions and social concerns
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