The General Teaching Council (GTC), the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) are among the organisations welcoming the announcement.
ATL said it was delighted the government had decided to replace the tests with teacher assessment. It said: “The challenge now will be to get teacher assessments right so they allow teachers to teach a wide curriculum, rather than merely become test administrators.”
Steve Munby, Chief Executive of the NCSL heralded the decision as a “victory
for professionalism which will reduce the burden on heads and their schools and their students”.
He said: “The existing assessment system was, like the financial services system, becoming too bloated”
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