All 12-year-olds face formal tests

All pupils should take a formal exam to assess their basic language and arithmetic skills before leaving primary school, education minister Maria van der Hoeven told MPs today. Some 5% of children do not take tests in group 8, their last year at primary school. The minister says testing pupils allows the quality of schools to be compared.

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