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  Sats agency scrapped and bosses suspended after inquiry pinpoints blame for tests fiasco

  Attempt to regain credibility after organisation condemned for 'massive failure' to prevent collapse of summer's tests

  • Test agency scrapped after Sats 'massive failure'
  • Exams body abolished after Sats report
  • The Sats questions Ed Balls must still answer
  • Timeline: How the Sats went wrong
  • Exams chief quit after seeing damning report
  • Exam bosses await ruling on Sats chaos
  • Q&A: Sats explained
  • Sats for 14-year-olds are scrapped
  • Now scrap Sats for 11-year-olds, Balls told
  • Blog: Balls decapitates the Sats system
  • Unions welcome end of secondary Sats
  • Scrapping Sats for 14-year-olds: the background

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• Primary rules for interesting lessons

  6 Jan 2009:

  Letters: There is in place a rigid tracking and testing regime that remorselessly marginalises creativity and fun

• Exam board wins contract to run Sats tests next year

  31 Dec 2008: Suspended exams chief warns there is 'no guarantee' results will be delivered on time

• The education year that was
  

  23 Dec 2008: 2008 saw new diplomas, familiar exam success stories and an utter Sats fiasco
  

• Sats case study: 'The whole thing is ludicrous'

  17 Dec 2008: Lost scripts, unrecorded children and confusion: Peter Kingston on how the Sats fiasco affected one school and its children

• Movers and shakers who promised modernisation

  17 Dec 2008:

  Profiles: Ken Boston; David Gee; Andy Latham

• All this public waste is born of a macho bigness fixation

  17 Dec 2008:

  Simon Jenkins: From pension blunder to Sats debacle, oversized Whitehall bureaucracy wreaks havoc. But those with power cling to it

• Who is behind the Sats crisis?

  16 Dec 2008: Ken Boston, who has already resigned over the exam marking fiasco, is just one of the major players
  

• Edexcel back in frame to run Sats

  15 Dec 2008: Exam company that ran tests before fiasco named preferred bidder for 2009

• Exams chief quits over Sats fiasco

  14 Dec 2008:

  Ken Boston 'taking responsibility' for last summer's scandal days before publication of independent report

• Instilling a love of learning

  9 Dec 2008:

  Jenni Russell: Sir Jim Rose is trying to lift the rigid constraints on primary schools and give greater freedom for imaginative teaching

• Review of Sats in primaries urged

  9 Dec 2008:

  Government's chief adviser Sir Jim Rose says schools need freedom to teach more in depth

• Rose calls for review of primary Sats

  8 Dec 2008:

  Research needs to cover tests, says government's chief adviser

• New passion for Shakespeare as once again the play's the thing

  29 Nov 2008:

  Letters: Your report (Shakespeare is shunned by schools, November 25) suggests the abolition of the key stage 3 Sats tests may tempt schools to marginalise the teaching of Shakespeare

• Shakespeare suffers slings and arrows of Sats fortune

  26 Nov 2008:

  Half of teachers registered for the RSC's Shakespeare training courses have cancelled since government scrapped Sats

• Shakespeare is shunned in schools

  25 Nov 2008:

  The Bard loses out after key stage 3 English tests are scrapped

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