• Emma Seith
• 21 Jul, 2019

In secondary, a lot of teachers blame the new qualifications – which started to be introduced in 2013-14 – for their workload burden. In a bid to tackle the problem, the Scottish government scrapped unit assessments, the small tests pupils had to pass throughout the school year under the new qualification regime. But, although the move had been called for by the teaching unions, the consequence was more change, with some exams becoming longer to compensate, as well as others being introduced for
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