Sally Weale Education correspondent, Thursday 1 December.
ABSTRACT. After five years in the job of chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw will [deliver his final annual general report as head of Ofsted on Thursday morning]. The 70-year-old former headteacher, whose reputation was forged in the classrooms of some of the most challenging schools in the country, and who nicknamed himself Dirty Harry after the Clint Eastwood character, has been a colourful figure in the education world, unafraid to upset pupils, parents, teachers and government ministers.
His final annual report is expected to focus on under performance in further education [technical] colleges, a neglected part of the education system, because – as he pointed out with characteristic candidness on Channel 4 News during a visit to a college in east London – “most politicians don’t send their youngsters to these sorts of places”.
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