One in 10 secondary schools judged inadequate.

From: Yorkshire Post (Leeds, England) | Date: October 17, 2007 | Copyright information

One in 10 secondary schools inspected in the past year was judged to be "inadequate", the country's chief education inspector says.

Schools are also failing to provide pupils with a sense of what it means to be British, Christine Gilbert, the head of Ofsted, says in her annual report published yesterday.

She says children are ignorant of the country's values and warns that pupil behaviour is not good in one-third of schools.

"Young people understand less than they should about how our democracy works, the forces which have shaped it and its values, history and ...

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