Interview: Zenna Atkins, outgoing chair, Ofsted
By Lauren Higgs 20 July 2010
Zenna Atkins, the outgoing chair of Ofsted, thinks every school should have a useless teacher. "One really good thing about primary school is that every kid learns how to deal with a really shit teacher," she proclaimed in a recent interview with The Sunday Times.
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