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The use of teacher-assessed grades has made students anxious about any form of testing – but we need them to be comfortable with low-stakes assessment, writes Louise Lewis

Exclusive: GCSE and A-level exam markers have described delays to their payments as ‘a shambles’

Ofqual says that ‘adaptations’ enabled exams to go ahead this year – but the regulator has faced criticism over how some changes were implemented

A closer look at the data suggests a brighter picture, says this primary leader

Chair of the Commons Education Select Committee calls for full marks to be issued on papers where errors were made this year due to exam board ‘negligence’

The DfE is yet to give a clear answer on the scale of missing and incorrect key stage 2 results, says union leader

New Scottish system must be ‘both visionary and practical’, says Professor Louise Hayward

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the revolving door of ministers at the Department for Education, missing Sats papers and the brutal truth about the sector

Teacher leaders ‘deeply concerned’ about the reports of missing Sats marks

Timetabling, class sizes and resources are to blame for the failure to realise Curriculum for Excellence in upper secondary, not courses, finds SQA research

MAT CEO says although the Sats results ‘hold up a mirror’, we should remember that they ‘only tell us so much’

Yesterday’s KS2 results tell us it is time to put an end to arbitrary targets, says data expert