Press releases

SATs headline statistics

Date: 09/07/2024

SATs are designed for accountability, not to show what children can do.

Assessment

Bridget Phillipson’s letter to the education sector

Date: 08/07/2024

We are looking forward to a journey of renewal with Government.

Labour pledge on careers advice

Date: 27/06/2024

To have real impact, this must take place alongside investment into the education sector and a broader curriculum.

The SATs effect

Date: 08/05/2024

More Than a Score report makes the case that learning, not school accountability, must be at the heart of our assessment system.

Progress 8

Date: 18/04/2024

Time to rebalance an ineffective school accountability system and focus on helping education share its successes and support improvement.

Assessment

General Secretary address to Annual Conference

Date: 06/04/2024

The full text of Daniel Kebede’s closing speech to NEU Annual Conference, Bournemouth, 6 April 2024.

SATs – bad for children, time for a change

Date: 03/04/2024

SATs are not a useful or accurate way of assessing what children can do.

Introduction of new VCSEs

Date: 30/01/2024

These proposals need to help to create parity of esteem between vocational and academic qualifications.

Assessment

PISA results for Wales

Date: 05/12/2023

No shock that across most OECD countries schools need support in the context of a post-pandemic situation.

Assessment

PISA

Date: 05/12/2023

It's very opportunistic to present the depiction of a global crisis for education as a national success story.

Assessment

Baseline assessment doesn't help

Date: 20/10/2023

Baseline assessment of English and Maths is inaccurate and unhelpful, finds new survey.

Digital exams

Date: 17/10/2023

Commenting on Making it Click, a report from AQA which makes a case for moving to digital exams, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union.

Assessment