Five headteachers, supported by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), have written an open letter to Glenys Stacey, Ofqual’s chief executive, questioning whether the real conclusions were suppressed because they did not tie in with the regulator’s version of events.
The £150,000 investigation, carried out by business consultant, Capgemini, involved visits to about 100 schools as part of a fact-finding mission about how and why this summer’s English results were so out of line with expectations.
The heads claim that few of these findings are reflected in Ofqual’s final report, GCSE English 2012, which only includes a 15-page “executive summary” of the Capgemini work. At the same time, the report relies heavily on comments from a teachers’ online forum, which is extensively referenced in the document.
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