Sir Michael Wilshaw said that poor leadership is causing schools to fail regardless of who has oversight.
“Schools are failing not because they are local authority schools or academies, or because they are part of a chain or they stand alone,” he said.
“They are failing because they haven’t got the essentials right: governance and oversight is weak, leadership is poor, misbehaviour goes unchallenged and teaching is indifferent.”
Wilshaw wants the debate, which he branded as "sterile" and “yesterday’s argument”, to be moved on to focus on the characteristics of failure.
“If our education system is to continue to progress, we need to concentrate on the basics of why schools and colleges fail and why they succeed,” he said.
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