Curriculum review: All the key policy recommendations

Curriculum Review Recommendations

The government should scrap the EBacc accountability measure, introduce year 8 “diagnostic” tests in English and maths and aim to reduce GCSE exam time by at least 10 per cent.

Professor Becky Francis’s review also calls for the key stage 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling test to be replaced.

Author's summary: Review recommends changes to curriculum and assessment.

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