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SATs Testing

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

479 c680-93 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Peter Bone | 479 c693 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that he is accountable. If that is so, why has he not resigned?

Ed Balls | 479 c693 (Link to this contribution) I have already answered that question a number of times. I am accountable for schools policy, includ...

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Annette Brooke | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) Head teachers have reported the need to check their SATs results against the teachers' assessments. ...

Ed Balls | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) The advice to me from the QCA is that the appeals process will deal with the volume of appeals and, ...

Bob Spink | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) In this as in so many other areas, smaller or less interfering Government is much better. Will the S...

Ed Balls | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will know, because we discussed this in the Select Committee last week, it is one o...

Philip Hollobone | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) Given the lack of confidence in the system and the likely increase in the number of appeals, what ex...

Ed Balls | 479 c693 (Link to this contribution) As I have said already, the answer is that Ofqual, the independent regulator in these matters, wrote...

Ed Balls | 479 c693 (Link to this contribution) I just explained to Liberal Democrat colleagues why I disagree with the approach that the hon. Gentl...

Paul Rowen | 479 c693 (Link to this contribution) Given that Ofqual is a new creation, what is the basis for the Secretary of State's assertion that t...

Ed Balls | 479 c690 (Link to this contribution) The body that is responsible for regulating the appeals process and ensuring the quality of marking ...

David Heath | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that a letter I have received from Christine Glen, the head teacher at Wincanton primary s...

Ed Balls | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) The answer to that question is no. That would be quite the wrong thing to do in the interests of chi...

Brian Jenkins | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) Without prejudging the outcome of any inquiry, may I inform my right hon. Friend that anyone in the ...

Ed Balls | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) It is essential that we have enough qualified markers, and that depends on the rates of pay that the...

Mike Penning | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) Teachers, parents and pupils will be astonished to hear the Secretary of State say that he is unable...

Ed Balls | 479 c691 (Link to this contribution) I have said that I very much regret what has happened, and I have explained clearly that the advice ...

David Leslie Taylor | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) Having called for this statement on two successive points of order, yesterday and two weeks ago, I a...

Ed Balls | 479 c690 (Link to this contribution) I would advise my hon. Friend to encourage the school to appeal. In a case where it is felt that the...

Baroness Keeley | 479 c689-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I have written to him about a primary school in my c...

Ed Balls | 479 c689 (Link to this contribution) As I said very clearly, I am accountable to Parliament for schools policy, and that includes the del...

Mark Francois | 479 c689 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the Secretary of State's rather extraordinary statement, which could best be...

Ed Balls | 479 c689 (Link to this contribution) I hear my hon. Friend's concerns. She will understand that the tests are not set by Ministers or by ...

Fiona Mactaggart | 479 c689 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware of the concern among teachers about the quality of the tests themsel...

Andy Slaughter | 479 c690 (Link to this contribution) The issue of procurement, including price, and the issue of culpability, involving the discussions b...

Graham Stuart | 479 c690 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that he regrets the situation, and he has accepted the point made by...

Ed Balls | 479 c690 (Link to this contribution) I have to say—and I shall say it for the third time to the hon. Gentleman—that I am advised that min...

David Laws | 479 c685-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that notwithstanding those comments the Secretary of State will accept that if we are to have...

Speaker | 479 c688 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have already been over half an hour on the statement and an awful lot of people are seekin...

Ed Balls | 479 c687-8 (Link to this contribution) I am a bit confused. Today, the hon. Gentleman is calling for a review of national testing and its f...

Phyllis Starkey | 479 c688 (Link to this contribution) May I pass on to the Secretary of State the concerns expressed to me at the weekend by parents and s...

Ed Balls | 479 c688 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. One reason why I acted last autumn was that, in my judgment, there wa...

Ed Balls | 479 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) I would like to update the House before it rises on the delivery of this year's national curriculum ...

Julie Kirkbride | 479 c688 (Link to this contribution) Like the rest of the country, the Secretary of State must have seen the two published test papers in...

Ed Balls | 479 c692 (Link to this contribution) The large majority of primary and secondary schools received their marks on time, so my hon. Friend ...

Ed Balls | 479 c683-5 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt in my mind that parents, teachers and pupils deserve better than the service that ...

Lord Gove | 479 c681-3 (Link to this contribution) May I first of all thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for finding time before we break up for this state...

Ed Balls | 479 c688 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Lady, I have no confidence in the marking of those two particular scripts. I am sure t...

Subjects

Contracts Curriculum Education Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Monitoring National curriculum tests Standards Schools Testing

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