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| 文章出处： 发布时间：2006-05-10 |
Passage Three
England’s 400 HM Inspectors (Wales has its own force of 50) provide small teams to go into selected schools for a 3—5 day inspection according to size or type. This is sometimes because they have been criticized by parents, councilors on the press. There may be other reasons; possibly a school is known for its particularly high standards, in which case the Inspectorate will wish to learn the secret and pass it on to the Minister concerned. Possibly, an informal inspector’s visit had already dug up signs of trouble. This would certainly lead to a fuller inspection.
Schools cannot refuse to be inspected, nor can the inspectors order the dismissal of any member of staff. Teachers are not their concern. Teaching is. This is not to say that an awful teacher will be ignored. Remarks will certainly be made to the headmaster and chief education officer—but they will be verbal, not written.
So what it is that HM Inspectors do? For one thing, they will want to take a close look at the courses offered and what standards are achieved by pupils. They also compare teachers’ qualifications with the subjects they teach. All too often teachers qualified in, say, history, are forced to teach maths, where there is a shortage.
Examination results are also looked at carefully, as are the school’s disciplinary arrangements, its accommodation (Do pupils have to sit in the corridors or in mobile classrooms? Are Lavatories outside? Does the roof leak when it rains) and the textbooks and equipment used.
Before leaving the inspected school, HMI will give the head and local authority leader some indication of its findings, so the reports, which take some months to put together and print, do not come as a total surprise.
There are about 30,000 schools, colleges and polytechnics in England. Although there are only about 250 formal inspections a year, visits are far more numerous. Last year done, three out of four secondary schools, one-quarter of all primary and middle schools, almost half of the public schools, 70 percent of all independent schools and nine out of ten further and higher education colleges were visited.
41. According to the passage, the Inspectors always visit schools ______.
A. for the same number of days
B. if a brief inspection suggests something is wrong
C. if parents have complained about them
D. if they hear that the school is doing very well
42. When the teachers at a school are unsatisfactory ______.
A. the school can prevent the inspectors from seeing them
B. the inspectors make critical comments
C. the inspectors send a report to the headmaster
D. the inspectors have power to get rid of them
43. The main reason why inspectors study teachers’ qualifications is that ______.
A. many teachers are not officially qualified
B. some teachers refuse to teach unpopular subjects
C. some teachers are not being employed appropriately
D. headmasters often neglect certain subjects
44. Inspectors’ recommendations on schools ______.
A. are immediately communicated in general terms
B. are kept secret from the schools concerned until they are made public
C. frequently come as a shook to headmasters
D. take so long to appear that they are not very useful
45. If you were a teacher in a secondary school in Britain, you would have been less likely to receive a visit from an inspector last year than if you worked in ______.
A. a primary school
B. a special school
C. an independent school
D. a further education college
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