Wilshaw urgently calls for good leaders

England urgently needs to recruit good leaders for its schools, and needs a national system that identifies, trains and nurtures leadership skills among teachers, says Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw.

Giving evidence to the Commons Education Select Committee, Wilshaw said more needed to be done to ensure schools have strong leaders in place for the near future, and has provided a paper to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan on the topic.

He told the committee: “We need to make sure we have a national system which identifies good people with potential leadership capabilities and to identify them and move them into leadership positions as soon as possible.”

Discussing the possibility of publicising school leaders’ pay, Wilshaw said ‘if you're good and you want to make teaching your career, leadership your career, you can do very well financially’.