Sack the bad teachers – Woodhead must go!

Ofsted now rates the teacher training provided at Buckingham as just “satisfactory”

Hugh Muir reports in today’s Guardian that ‘Ofsted now rates the teacher training provided at Buckingham – the only private university in England – as just “satisfactory”.’ Oh dear, and that’s where the teachers’ friend, former chief inspector of schools (and occasional Telegraph columnist) Chris Woodhead now works, along with Professor Anthony O’Hear, once Mrs Thatcher’s education guru, and Professor Alan Smithers. As Muir comments, ‘Must raise standards, they always say. Certainly we must.’