Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
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Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#2For context, Ofsted is the much-maligned government inspectorate of schools in England. They are currently under increased scrutiny following an inquest into the suicide of a headteacher following an inspection that concluded at the end of last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-67639942 and https://www.bbc.com/news/education-67639943
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#3> sometimes crashing unexpectedly and losing all notes from interviews, or even whole days of evidence, so that inspectors have to replace those notes from memory without telling the school
Let me dig out those comments said software bug is OK something like that.
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#4For context, Ofsted is the much-maligned government inspectorate of schools in England. They are currently under increased scrutiny following an inquest into the suicide of a headteacher following an inspection that concluded at the end of last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-67639942 and https://www.bbc.com/news/education-67639943
I hope people think more about cases like this and the Post Office when they go to say “it’s not like we’re curing cancer” or “my bad code isn’t a matter of life or death”.
You might be far removed from the implications of doing a poor job but that doesn’t mean everyone else is.
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#5'Replacing notes from memory' is not ideal but it's far removed from 'make up evidence' used in the headline.
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#6How often does their IT fail? Outsourced to Crapita or Fooljitsu by any chance?
With Google Docs/Office 365 the last time I lost a full document is years ago now.
I am old enough to have stored my laptop in the fridge when writing my PhD thesis, to keep the fault rate down. However, that is when hard drives where still mechanical, and online backups not a common thing.
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#7'Replacing notes from memory' is not ideal but it's far removed from 'make up evidence' used in the headline.
Depends probably on how extensive and detailed the notes are. And the big problem seems to be that they are hiding the fact that those notes were from memory.
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#8For context, Ofsted is the much-maligned government inspectorate of schools in England. They are currently under increased scrutiny following an inquest into the suicide of a headteacher following an inspection that concluded at the end of last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-67639942 and https://www.bbc.com/news/education-67639943
What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke.
Also what does software have to do with that case?
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#9'Replacing notes from memory' is not ideal but it's far removed from 'make up evidence' used in the headline.
Take a look at this figure[0] from "The Neuroscience of Memory: Implications for the Courtroom"
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
Re: Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
#10For context, Ofsted is the much-maligned government inspectorate of schools in England. They are currently under increased scrutiny following an inquest into the suicide of a headteacher following an inspection that concluded at the end of last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-67639942 and https://www.bbc.com/news/education-67639943
What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke. Also what does software have to do with that case?
> What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke.
Are you suggesting this is a binary decision, where the only options is choosing "more oversight" or "less oversight"?