Ofsted considers using Facebook and Twitter to check on schools
Ofsted is considering using social media to track pupils and parents to decide which schools need an intervention.
However, experts say that data from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is “unreliable”, Schools Week has reported.
The idea has been included in the watchdog’s “innovation and regulation plan”, which was published this week.
It says Ofsted is engaging with the Department for Education in a “data science project” to “explore the possibility of using near-realtime data and information from social media and other sources to predict and prevent decline in school performance”.
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