#examfactories

#Education #Ofsted #ExamFactories #MentalHealth

Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children

Teachers are resisting our schools being forced become even more intensive #ExamFactories.

Well done teachers.

Labour wedded to Victorian ideas of education and seeking to push schools even further into competition
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Four-year-olds don't need to sit still to be 'school ready' The UK government's strategy for early years education in England aims to get children in reception "school-ready." But what school readiness means is debatable.

"Valuing children's experiences instead of focusing on prescribed milestones helps them connect with world as well as develop academically."

Forcing schools to become #ExamFactories is terrible for education, as well as #MentalHealth
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GCSE results are out – but is the system worth it? Students may be encouraged to study and take exams in subjects that don’t suit them and that they don’t enjoy.

#ExamFactories - our education system, and the pupils, must be freed from the treadmill. And the #MentalHealth and life consequences that follow.

"At least 30% of students always fail."

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Article: The government is prepared to invest in concrete, steel and brick, but not in people

I write in the latest issue of @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social

" If we don’t invest in people then we cannot prosper. Human time, energy, talents and skills are a scarce resource."

#BenefitCuts #ExamFactories #PublicHealth

Britain’s dyslexia crisis: schools are failing children like mine When Katherine Faulkner tried to find help for her dyslexic seven-year-old daughter she discovered woeful support in schools, poor training and — with the focus on autism and ADHD — a situation that’s...

“Anybody looking at the curriculum we’re teaching is going to realise that it’s taken us back to the Victorian era".

We have to stop forcing our schools to become #ExamFactories - doing enormous damage to #MentalHealth, & education
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#examfactories are no place to grow up, and they're most certainly no places to work either.

The gap between what we expect teachers to do and the reality of what teachers can actually do (given the time, resources and nature of the students they have), is huge and getting bigger.

Tested to destruction: how an obsession with exams is failing our children | The Observer How do we reform a system that works for some but writes off so many others? Investing in early childhood would be a good start

"British 16-year-olds spend more time in exam halls than almost anyone in the world."

At enormous cost, to #MentalHealth and the quality of education: #ExamFactories are no place to grow up
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We need an education for life, not schools forced to become #ExamFactories

One Step Beyond: A View from a School - HEPI Preparing students for higher education requires better careers advice, life skills teaching, and support for unassessed academic skills.

Young people want education for life, not #ExamFactories

www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/07/o...

Ofsted’s new school report card worse than old system, say headteachers Unions as well as school leaders say proposed changes to replace four-grade approach in England are ‘demoralising’

Reminder - it is the longtime policy of @TheGreenParty to abolish Ofsted.

We need education for life, not schools forced to become #ExamFactories
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We rank bottom of 27 countries for high rates of unhappiness among 15-year-olds. There is a #MentalHealth crisis. Schools forced to become competitive #ExamFactories, with rigid, intolerant discipline, are a big factor.

#HouseofLords debate on free schools and academies