on February 5, 2016
The Scotsman – Flagship legislation requiring the Scottish Government and councils to tackle the attainment gap has been passed by Holyrood, despite concerns about the return of national testing for primary school pupils.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News |
on January 25, 2016
The Guardian – More than 10,000 pupils left England’s mainstream state secondary schools in the run-up to their GCSE courses, according to an analysis of official data by the Guardian. The figures come amid concerns league-table pressures are incentivising institutions to move students who are unlikely to do well off their books.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on January 8, 2016
BBC News Education – This year’s key GCSE and A-Level examinations have been timetabled to take into account the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, exam boards have said.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on January 4, 2016
South West AAIA invites you to experience UKFUNDISA – teaching that causes you to learn, and provides rich evidence that you have done so! SW AAIA Conference 2016 – programme and application form
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on January 3, 2016 | updated January 7, 2016
BBC News Education – Every pupil in England will be tested on their times tables before leaving primary school, under government plans. Pupils aged 11 will be expected to know their tables up to 12×12, and will be tested using an “on-screen check”. TES News – All pupils to sit new times table test as part […]
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – Migrants ‘do not lower school results’. OECD – Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News, Performance Data |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers are to consider the introduction of more “rigorous” assessments for seven-year-olds, including a possible return to national testing. BBC News Education – Morgan: Tougher tests and top teachers in weak schools. The Telegraph – All test scores from seven-year-olds ‘to be sent to government’, under plans being considered. Review to be announced […]
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers have watered down their policy of requiring all secondary students to sit GCSEs in the core academic subjects that make up the English Baccalaureate.
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on November 2, 2015
The Guardian – Ministers are considering more rigorous assessments for seven-year-olds – including the reintroduction of national tests – as part of an overhaul of primary school appraisal to being announced by education secretary Nicky Morgan.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 1, 2015 | updated November 3, 2015
Equality and Human Rights Commission – In 2010, the Commission produced its first report on equality (How Fair is Britain?) and separate report on human rights (the Human Rights Review) in 2012. Is Britain Fairer? is the Commission’s follow-up report on both equality and human rights. This report outlines our findings and sets out the challenges […]
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on November 1, 2015
TES News – Author Philip Pullman has warned that an obsession with league tables and exams has left arts education in a “terrible state”. The Guardian – Philip Pullman decries ‘terrible state’ of children’s education in the arts.
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on November 1, 2015
The Sunday Times – Tough new tests and assessments for England’s primary school children may be scrapped in a wide-ranging review after opposition from unions and head teachers in what many will see as a significant government U-turn.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on October 19, 2015
TES News – It has been around since the 1950s, easing the passage to university for generations of pupils in return for very little revision. But TES can reveal that the Department for Education has decided to abolish A-level general studies.
Posted in Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
on October 19, 2015
TES News – Just three of 156 new GCSEs, AS- and A-levels that schools will be expected to teach from next year have had any official approval from exams regulator Ofqual, it has emerged.
Posted in Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
on October 11, 2015
TES News – A large number of migrant children in a school can lead to worse exam results in many countries, but not in England, according to research. IZA World of Labour – Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News |
