Press Release
ATL Comment On Delay To Sats Results
4 July 2008
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said:
“We know exam markers have done everything they can to get this year’s SATs papers marked on time, despite the huge number of problems with admin because of the incompetence of the marking contractor – ETS Europe.
“We are pleased to hear the National Assessment Agency’s and Government’s assurances that the quality should not have suffered.
“But this delay with the marks is just a short-term solution. It does not solve the fundamental problem that dealing with 9.5 million papers every year is a massive administrative and logistic undertaking which is prone to shambles and is not worth the money. The Government needs to face up to the reality - SATs are beyond their sell-by date.”
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