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Assessment overload `puts sustained learning at risk’, says committee

Markers complain of confusion over training, delayed contracts and jammed helplines

Hundreds of complaints over new company’s handling of key stage 2 and 3 national tests

First the authorities stipulated which lines of Shakespeare pupils would study for KS3; now theatres are staging abbreviated versions of the plays

Britain’s most famous TV documentary series is to screen an expose of England’s Sats regime in which leading educationists will say testing has gone too far

First the authorities stipulated which lines of Shakespeare pupils would study for KS3; now theatres are staging abbreviated versions of the plays