Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 26 January 2009.
Brian Jenkins
Labour, Tamworth
2:30,
26 January 2009
My right hon. Friend will realise that SATs for 11-year-olds are not conducted in Northern Ireland, Wales or Scotland. What is the educational rationale for conducting them in England, when we know how disruptive they are for 11-year-olds? Would an alternative not be better? Will he accept the recommendations and findings of the expert group, including those that head teachers are now putting forward?
