THE Tory Education Secretary ignored calls from teachers for Ofsted to be abolished today and claimed its one-word assessments as “easy for parents to navigate.”

Gillian Keegan claimed the four ratings used by England’s schools watchdog, which range from “outstanding” to “inadequate,” are “clear and simple to understand.”

Pressure on the public body is mounting after motions demanding it be scrapped were overwhelmingly passed at the annual conferences of England’s two biggest teaching unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT, earlier this month.