One child in three left primary school this year without having mastered essential skills in reading, writing and mathematics, national test results are expected to disclose today.

There are plenty of examples: the other three nations enjoy proportional representation, the scrapping of failed policies such as the private-finance initiative and SATs tests in schools, an officially sanctioned network of credit unions in Wales, land reform in Scotland, fairer energy pricing in Northern Ireland. In these respects, the three smaller nations of the

Pupils face being awarded different marks in the same subject as Sats results and teacher assessments are published together.

Sats for 11 year olds in England are too unreliable to be used to compare schools in league tables, teachers' unions say.

Headteachers are facing possible legal challenge after pressing ahead with a planned boycott of Sats tests in England.

Teaching unions throw down gauntlet to the next government, announcing boycott of May's national curriculum tests.

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The government is to publish performance statistics for schools that are based on teacher assessments

Ed Balls hints at climbdown in the face of looming threat by a teaching union to boycott next year's tests.

Gordon Brown set himself on a collision course with teaching unions yesterday suggesting that controversial tests for 11yearolds are as important as Alevels or GCSEs.