The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which carried out the survey, says this is adding to the pressures on schools, especially workload.
Ofsted has been running its so-called “myth-busting” campaign for some time now in a bid to dispel some of the misconceptions schools have about what is required during inspection (see further information).
Some of these myths were again dispelled by Ofsted’s national director of education, Sean Harford, in a recent Department for Education YouTube clip focused on reducing workload.
And in its survey, involving almost 500 senior leaders of secondary schools in England, ASCL did make a number of positive findings.
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