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Pearson Edexcel exam paper sat by students on Thursday stated the incorrect date of a historical text, with one candidate saying the mistake ‘threw us completely off’

Just 289 newly appointed heads have taken up early headship support offer despite revamp

The Standards and 91¶¶Òõting Agency has made the paper sat by Year 6 pupils last week available ‘due to public interest in the tests’

The union says it is time to overhaul the use of attainment data and stop schools in ‘economically devastated’ areas from being branded ‘Scotland’s worst schools’ in the media

Union leaders ‘disappointed and concerned’ that problems are emerging with the primary assessments again this year

Documents also show SQA was warned ‘a return to the 2019 course requirements should not be done quickly’ because younger students had suffered ‘greater learning loss’

As England moves up to fourth in Pirls for primary reading, Tim Oates explains why the outcome is proof that education policies can have a real impact if implemented correctly

Teachers’ concerns are ‘deeply worrying’ after last year’s Sats marking failures, says union

This week pupils took a reading test that led to school leaders calling for testing reform – but what was the problem with the paper? 91¶¶Òõ investigates the numbers behind the words

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week’s Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’

Even school staff were left ‘struggling to understand the questions’ in yesterday’s key stage 2 Sats reading paper, warns the NAHT