Julia Waters is Professor of French at the University of Reading, with over 30 years of teaching experience in Higher Education. Julia spoke to TTS, however, as the sister of Ruth Perry, the headteacher who took her own life in January 2023 as a result of a ‘rude and intimidating’ Ofsted inspection that the coroner described as ‘lacking fairness, respect and sensitivity’. Since Ruth’s death, Julia has been campaigning for radical reform of Ofsted’s punitive, high-stakes school inspection system.