Stormont’s Education Minister has published a policy framework to assess children from primary school through to Key Stage 3. Paul Givan said the new set-up is a “modern, coherent and intentionally ...

Education Minister Paul Givan has published a new policy framework for statutory assessment in primary schools and at Key Stage 3. This initiative establishes a clear, sequenced s ...

Keeping all formal primary school tests will hit pupil wellbeing, a teaching union has warned. Three in four (75 per cent) of primary school teachers surveyed by the National Education Union (NEU) ...

It comes as education unions have raised concerns about the statutory tests taken by Year 6 pupils in primary schools across England. Pupils in England sit Sats in the summer of Year 6 (PA) The ...

Major changes to how children will be assessed in schools in Northern Ireland have been announced. For the first time, Northern Ireland will have a clear statutory assessment pathway from Year 1 to ...

The Education Secretary’s comments came as teachers across England are finalising decisions on their pupils’ GCSE and A-level grades. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our free ...

The proportion of Year 6 pupils in England who met the expected standard in this year’s Sats exams has risen, but it is still below pre-pandemic levels, official statistics show. The Key Stage 2 ...