Education in the News - 13 November

Courtesy The Royal Society  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:00

Greg Watson, chief executive of the OCR exam board, claimed that public confidence in the exams system has reduced, and that schools were becoming ‘production lines’, concentrating on test results at the expense of education.


 

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