ABSTRACT
But how many know the extent to which its growth, and the movement away from confrontational top-down inspection, can be largely credited to one professor of education and his team?
John MacBeath, chair of educational leadership at Cambridge University since 2000, was formerly director of the University of Strathclyde’s Quality in Education Centre. It was there in the late 1980s that he and his colleagues developed a framework for school self-evaluation acceptable both to schools and to those responsible for them.
