Press Release

NUT comment on Key Stage 3

Tuesday, August 12 2008

Commenting on today's provisional results for Key Stage 3, Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said, "It is understandable why the Government has chosen not to publish the provisional local authority figures for Key Stage 3, given ETS failures.

"However, it is puzzling that the Key Stage 2 figures have been published. No results can be relied upon, particularly in light of the high number of appeals and missing results.

"It is now time to call a halt to the SATs and have a fundamental and independent review of assessment."