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Warwick Mansell & Helen Ward
All articles by Warwick Mansell & Helen Ward
Fallout spreads from Sats bombshell
One week on, heads and union leaders are still scratching their heads about the future of targets and assessments
24 October 2008
Staffrooms celebrate at seeing off exams at 14
But primaries are `devastated’ at having to continue with KS2 tests
17 October 2008
Scrap Sats, said Edexcel
Exam board told inquiry that national testing had `too many purposes attributed on one test experience’
22 August 2008
Holidays on hold over Sats
25 July 2008
Deluge of complaints for heads’ union
Schools are bombarding a union with complaints about this year’s Sats, with at least eight primaries saying they have not yet had a full set of results
18 July 2008
Panic and chaos at Hotel Sats
As ETS Europe puts up teachers working long hours to tackle the backlog, markers tell The TES of ‘frazzled’ ETS staff, lax security and being asked to mark papers outside their subject areas
11 July 2008
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