By Richard Garner, Education Editor Independent
The prospect of pupils suing exam boards over blunders in this year’s GCSE and A-level papers emerged yesterday as three more serious howlers came to light. A head teachers’ leader warned the latest in a string of mistakes had seriously undermined public confidence in the examination system.
Parents’ leader, Margaret Morrissey Parentsoutloud called for “heavy” fines to be levied on exam boards with the worst offenders being stripped of their authority to set exams. Ofqual, the exams regulator, warned it would take regulatory action if …

Tom Harper London Evening Standard
Thousands of 11-year-olds start secondary school in London with a reading age of seven, the Evening Standard reveals today.Data obtained by the Standard show as many as one in three children in parts of the capital lags behind – far worse than was first feared. The figures reveal the extent of the literacy crisis in London, with many state schools failing to give children the most basic of life skills.The statistics, uncovered after a five-month freedom of information battle, led parents and experts to call on …

A primary school has been condemned by parents for disciplining two seven-year-old boys after teachers ruled playing army games amounted to “threatening behaviour”.