Leading literacy experts will utrge the Government to abandon plans for a compulsory national reading test for all six-year-olds next summer.

Report by
Tim Paget Chad
e-mail tim.paget@chad.co.uk
Mum’s anger at school punishment after incident
A Mansfield Mum.who says her eight-year old daughter was ‘sexually assaulted’ at school has criticised the punishment handed out to the two boys responsible.
The girl was allegedly pinned up against a wall and kicked while the pair of boys,
who are also aged eight and in the same class, carried out the attack .Her 24-year-old mother said the schoolgirl was left upset and frightened by the incident, which took place earlier this week And she says the two …

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Friday, 14 October 2011
Parents’ groups alarmed at Gove proposal to give A-level pupils a national ranking
Pupils face being given a national ranking from first to up to nearly 90,000th in A-level exams to help universities select the brightest candidates from thousands of top-grade passes.The move was floated by the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, as one of a series of radical measures to revamp A-levels, but parents’ leaders said they were “alarmed” by the proposal and warned it would lead to increasing numbers of appeals against exam …