The Daily Mirror reports that "high-pressure exams" for 11-year-olds will be scrapped according to Children's Secretary Ed Balls.
Children sit English, science and maths tests on the same day at the end of junior school. Now they will be able to sit them "when they feel ready".
Another example of children being mollycoddled - what is wrong with testing? The 11-plus didn't harm children because in those days there was a real education to be had, not just the chance to be socially engineered.
It's apparently part of (yet another) overhaul of the education system. The Mirror reports that "Pupils as young as four will also get to learn a modern foreign language that could include Urdu or Mandarin. And teachers will be urged to work lessons into other parts of the school day by translating lunch menus and taking the register in another language."
Yes because saying that will help when reading out a list of names!
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