Failing teachers 'too hard to sack'

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Christine Gilbert, the head of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), claimed pupils were being let down by inadequate teachers.

She said teaching rated as "satisfactory" was not good enough, especially in deprived areas.

Her comments come ahead of the new academic year as children across the country prepare to return to school.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Ms Gilbert called for schools to be able to fire underperforming staff more easily and criticised a "revolving door syndrome" which lets weak teachers move from school to school.

"As I go round the country heads tell me how difficult it is to get rid of weak teachers," she said.

"They say they start the procedure and they might be 18 months down the line and the teacher will move... we need to be thinking of ways of preventing that. That isn't Ofsted's role but I sympathise with head teachers about that."