A review of the issues facing deprived communities is promising “radical new solutions” to the problems of education underachievement among disadvantaged pupils.
Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has unveiled the review, which he said will investigate the barriers to access and achievement in education for these communities.
It will be the third such report Ofsted has produced after two studies were published in 1993 and 2003 under the title Access and Achievement in Urban Education.
Speaking at the annual conference of the National College for School Leadership last week, Sir Michael said that the 1993 report had described the “lack of educational success and the paucity of good-quality provision in deprived communities”. He continued: “What was so depressing was that (the report in 2003) painted a similarly bleak picture of underperformance in these same communities.”
The two previous studies identified issues such as high pupil turnover and difficulties in teacher recruitment which were preventing schools from improving sufficiently.
Now a review panel of “leading headteachers and academic experts” is to be appointed to seek answers to five questions:
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