Gove said that removing the forms was another step in lifting the "bureaucratic burden" from headteachers, saying they could carry significant costs and take days out of head teachers’ time.
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), and Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have both praised the measure saying the inspection regime needs reforming.
Blower said: "The school self-evaluation form was never about professional and collaborative self-evaluation, but arid and time-consuming form filling and box ticking.
"The NUT has a very long-standing policy that school self-evaluation is a good thing. If this announcement is the first step on the road to fundamentally changing the current inspection regime, then it is very much to be welcomed."
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