Education secretary defends national testing for year two pupils and attacks vocational qualifications brought in by Labour as ‘a fraud on young people’Nicky Morgan has justified the reintroduction of national tests for seven-year-olds in England,saying “robust assessment was needed to degree progress in schools. “To be really confident that students are progressing well through primary school, we will be looking at the assessment of pupils at age seven to make certain it is as robust and rigorous as it needs to be, or ” the education secretary said in her first major policy announcement since the election in May.
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Source: theguardian.com