Manchester Evening News:
What do Ofsted know about three-year-olds? Parents at this `inadequate' nursery say it's nonsense
15 February 2017
A university study says that inspectors are failing to spot the best and worst nursery schools by using 'traditional methods'
Parents have defended a pre-school rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted as a report shows the watchdog’s inspections don’t always reveal the best nurseries. The report published this week shows that sending children to an ‘outstanding’ nursery makes barely any difference to how well they develop in their early years. Researchers at the London School of Economics, University of Sussex and University College London, discovered that traditional measures used to evaluate nursery schools by inspectors failed to spot the best or worst schools.