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Incyte International is a specialist school improvement/self-evaluation support partner that provides a wide range of IT and face to face products and services to aid school improvement. The recent growth of Incyte has been the result of its high quality reputation and the recommendation of its services from one school to another.
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Latest News - Comment from Malcolm Greenhalgh
FACING THE CHALLENGE
' I find it rather sad that fellow professionals are responding to the challenges laid before us in a negative way. As profesionals, we need to firstly check our facts and secondly, to provide a measured judgement based on the facts. I don't disagree that the NIF does have flaws in it and, as a self-evaluation document for schools to use to improve standards, it is nowhere near as good as the old framework - curriculum is one example of this. So our advice to schools is 'do not throw out the baby with the bath water'. We are already seeing the quality of SEFs, and the school's own self-evaluation processes, reducing in quality when they are just relying on the NIF criteria.
The NIF criteria is quite clear in the Achievement section: the most important judgement that inspectors need to make is on the progress made by pupils from their start points. This means, that schools, regardless of the challenges they face, can become outstanding schools if pupils are making rapid progress and that the quality of teaching in schools is outstanding - and it was a flaw in the previous inspection framework that schools were able to become outstanding even if teaching and the leadership of teaching were only judged to be good.
As a company, we support many outstanding schools and schools that are in category and not one of these schools is shying away from the challenge. Teachers in these schools are being well led and are positive about how they can improve to ensure that the pupils going through their schools get the best possible start in life. The schools we support, especially those in very deprived areas of the country, know that they have a massive challenge and they also know that if the pupils have had a poor start in life before entering school or have underachieved in previous schools, that the challenges they are facing are even more difficult to overcome. However, they know and we know that it is possible to turn things around quite quickly if you do the right things effectively. We have many examples of schools that we work closely with that make fantastic strides forward in short spaces of time.
The government is right to raise expectations and to say that every pupil has the right to a good standard of education - how can we suggest that it should be any different? It is a travesty that schools have let pupils down for so long and that the local authorities themselves have not been rigorous and robust enough to stop this from happening. As a society, we should not accept this situation.
So, as professionals, lets get off our negative responses, face the challenges that many of our schools face and get behind them to help them provide a high quality education to all our pupils - this is their fundamental right in life! It is our job to make it happen. '