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Pointless and long overdue for axe: critics attack school inspections

22nd Jan 2010

School inspectors should be banned from the classroom and responsibility handed to local authorities, senior figures in Scottish education said last night. They believe the current system is contributing to the decline in education standards in Scotland, and they are urging that responsibility for monitoring teaching be removed from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe).