A FORMER headteacher has launched an attack on Scotland’s fledgling curriculum and the “dangerous” lack of testing in primary schools.
Writing in The Scotsman today, Carole Ford, the retired headteacher of Kilmarnock Academy and a former president of School Leaders Scotland, said the introduction of Curriculum for Excellence had led to a series of “half-baked” approaches to education.
She said: “There is now no assessment regime whatsoever for primary pupils. In addition, Scotland has removed itself from two international comparative studies; a cynic might wonder if this is to ensure that there will be no future bad news in relation to standards in Scotland. A complete absence of external accountability in primary education is a hugely dangerous policy. How can it be sensible to abandon all attempts to measure and ensure standards?”