Progress 8
Time to rebalance an ineffective school accountability system and focus on helping education share its successes and support improvement.
Topic: Assessment
SATs – bad for children, time for a change
SATs are not a useful or accurate way of assessing what children can do.
Secondary Assessment Working Party: Final report
The case for change in secondary assessment and what can be learnt from alternative approaches.
Introduction of new VCSEs
These proposals need to help to create parity of esteem between vocational and academic qualifications.
Oak National Academy
The NEU opposes the Government’s decision to create a national curriculum body in the form of OAK National Academy, with funding of more than £43m over three years.
PISA results for Wales
No shock that across most OECD countries schools need support in the context of a post-pandemic situation.
PISA
It's very opportunistic to present the depiction of a global crisis for education as a national success story.
Not SATisfactory
How the KS2 reading test fails working-class children
Baseline assessment doesn't help
Baseline assessment of English and Maths is inaccurate and unhelpful, finds new survey.
Digital exams
Commenting on Making it Click, a report from AQA which makes a case for moving to digital exams, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union.
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