Some schools are going a decade or more between visits from inspectors.
The Northern Ireland Assembly’s education committee is holding an “inspecting the inspectors” probe and is looking at planned new robust powers for the North’s Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI).
It is also examining changes elsewhere, which have made other school inspectorates more like “improvement partners” than inspectors.
In its latest evidence session, the committee heard from campaign group ParentsOutLoud. The group says, with visits from inspectors so few and far between, there is a danger that classroom standards will slip. In Belfast, there was a period of nine years between inspections at Knockbreda High School while the most recent report available for the large Methodist College dates back 12 years.
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