Michael Gove considered replacing Sir Michael Wilshaw as chief inspector of schools amid deep-seated frustrations over his performance, an internal Whitehall memo passed to the Guardian reveals. The Department for Education document reveals that the former education secretary, senior officials and DfE board members discussed the “serious and growing problem” of Ofsted as run by Wilshaw. The leak comes at an acutely sensitive time for the schools regulator, who risked a further disagreement with the department – now run by Nicky Morgan – because of an about-turn over universal no-notice inspections. Wilshaw announced on Thursday that Ofsted would not be introducing inspections of schools without warning other than in special circumstances, despite Gove, Morgan and David Cameron supporting the idea after the Trojan horse Birmingham schools controversy. The memo, circulated in October last year and written by Gove’s then special adviser Dominic Cummings, says that he, schools minister Lord Nash and DfE board member Theo Agnew were “increasingly alarmed” about Ofsted and Wilshaw’s managerial abilities.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:52:35 +0000
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