Ofsted to raise the bar for outstanding schools

More than 1,000 schools across England could face a review of their Ofsted rating after chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw pledged to impose “demanding criteria” on outstanding ratings.

Speaking at the London Leadership Strategy’s Good to Great conference, Wilshaw said that for a school to be judged as good it should have at least good teaching, similarly outstanding teaching should be the feature of any school judged as outstanding.

According to Wilshaw, this is not currently the case in more than 1,000 schools, meaning they could be subject to review.

Wilshaw said: “We need clear and demanding criteria for a school to be judged