"Ed Balls made a statement about testing, which was as stuffed with jargon as a whole pack of Paxo in a Christmas turkey" - The Guardian columnist Simon Hoggart on Children's Secretary Ed Balls' announcement in Parliament that SAT exams for 14-year-olds are to be scrapped
"The person who writes the spec is like God" - Fiona Blacke, chief executive of The National Youth Agency, on how powerful local authority commissioners have become.
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