Posted on Thursday 28th Nov 2024
There have also been calls for fewer end-of-course GCSE and A-level exams
Primary school pupils should not have to sit “high-pressure” tests and there should be fewer end-of-course GCSE and A-level exams, a teaching union has urged.
The National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in the UK, has also called for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) – a government performance measure of schools which focuses on five subjects at GCSE – to be scrapped.
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