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- Sats marking disaster inquiry 'like an episode of The Thick of It' - The Guardian, Wednesday May 20, 2009
Head of report into Sats fiasco says it was 'inappropriate' for education ministers to second someone from their office to help with inquiryLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats marking contract is scrapped - BBC, Friday August 15, 2008
Exams authority the QCA has ended its contract with exams administrator ETS Europe after this summer's marking controversy.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats inquiry: Watchdog 'failed' - BBC, Tuesday December 16, 2008
The inquiry into this year's Sats test shambles has blamed the exam watchdog and private contractor ETS Europe.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats for 14-year-olds abolished: Teachers and parents praise decision - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday October 15, 2008
Teachers and parents have praised the decision to scrap Sats exams for 14-year-olds, and called on the Government to go even further by ditching tests sat for younger children.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats firm elbowed out of appeals - BBC, Monday July 28, 2008
The government's school exams agency for England is taking control of the re-marking of disputed test papers from its contractor, ETS Europe.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats figures show reading standards drop for 11-year-olds - The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 2010
English and Maths standards rise, despite 16% of primary school leavers failing to reach expected reading levelLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats exams promote 'teaching to the test' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday April 6, 2010
National exams in primary schools are promoting a culture of “teaching to the test”, according to MPs.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats exams misleading, say majority of schools - The Guardian, Tuesday August 5, 2008
Ministers will publish the first wave of results from this year's Sats today as new research suggests that most schools have lost faith in the value of the exams and fear they do not give an accurate record of the abilities of pupils.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats essays 'should be scrapped' - BBC, Monday January 19, 2009
Essay questions in Sats tests are "subjective and stressful to mark" and should be replaced, a report suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats boycott: schools running alternative tests - Daily Telegraph, Monday May 10, 2010
Primary schools are running their own unofficial tests in a move designed to scupper the publication of national league tables, it emerged today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats boycott hits tens of thousands of pupils - BBC, Monday May 10, 2010
Tens of thousands of children in England are missing their Sats tests as head teachers in hundreds of schools stage a boycott. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats are too 'unreliable and stressful', say unions - BBC, Friday July 16, 2010
National tests - Sats - for 11-year-olds in England have too high a margin of error to be used to compare schools in league tables, teachers' unions say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats agency scrapped and bosses suspended after inquiry pinpoints blame for tests fiasco - The Guardian, Wednesday December 17, 2008
The exams agency has disbanded the body responsible for Sats and suspended its two most senior executives in an attempt to regain credibility after it was condemned for its "massive failure" to prevent the collapse of this summer's tests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Russell Hoban obituary - The Guardian, Wednesday December 14, 2011
Russell Hoban, creator of Frances, the Mouse and His Child and Riddley Walker, has diedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - RSC in school Shakespeare drive - BBC, Monday November 14, 2005
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to increase its efforts to boost the teaching of the Bard's work in schools. The company will go into schools and encourage teachers to get children to study Shakespeare by performing his works rather than just reading them. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - RSC demands Shakespeare revolution - Times Educational Supplement, Friday September 15, 2006
Children are being turned off Shakespeare because of the "boring" way the Bard is taught in schools, the Royal Shakespeare Company has warned. A lack of opportunities to perform his plays or watch live productions risks marginalising the world's best-known playwright for a generation of children, says Maria Evans, the RSC's director of learning.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Royal approval: How Michael Gove is taking lessons from the Prince of Wales - The Independent, Thursday June 24, 2010
"Anything that looks at improving teachers' subject knowledge has to be a good idea," says Ian McNeilly of the National Association for the Teaching of English. "After all, it's what we do for a living, all day, every day – although, of course, the difference is to do it without that backing and wealth."Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Row over proposal to mark exams in-house - The Guardian, Tuesday May 9, 2006
The head of the government's exams watchdog today clashed with ministers when he suggested ending externally marked national tests for 11 and 14-year-olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Row erupts over dyslexia 'denial' - BBC, Friday September 2, 2005
An education professor has cast doubt on the scientific validity of the term 'dyslexia', saying experts cannot agree on what it is or how to treat it. ... The British Dyslexia Association says the claims are inflammatory.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rotherham MP hails Dolly Parton book scheme 'a success' - BBC, Friday January 27, 2012
A South Yorkshire MP is calling for a children's reading scheme initiated by US country singer Dolly Parton to be rolled out across the UK.A South Yorkshire MP is calling for a children's reading scheme initiated by US country singer Dolly Parton to be rolled out across the UK.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here