Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded
SATs: 2023 reading test harder, but ‘met its purpose’ Ofqual also says delay to start of marking last year did not get in the way of ‘standards maintenance procedures’
Key stage 1 SATs paper plan a ‘breathtaking waste of money’ Schools will receive test papers unless they opt out, despite the assessments being non-statutory from this year
Improvement in final KS1 SATs, but still below pre-pandemic The DfE has published results data from last year’s SATs, the last before they were made non-statutory
Primary school disadvantage gap stops widening But the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers remains way above pre-pandemic levels
TRA overturns its own decision to ban head after cheating scandal Malcolm Drakes had ‘excessively’ assisted SATs pupils, but successfully appealed his ban over error by agency
Capita ‘rewarded’ for 2022 SATs chaos as £1.5m shaved off penalty Ministers waive part of permitted fee for outsourcing giant to ‘de-risk delivery for future test cycles’
Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year
Scaled scores for 2023 key stage 2 SATs announced DfE publishes marks pupils need to meet the ‘expected’ standard