Sentences with phrase «exam factories»
And Dr Bousted told Schools Week: «If schools hadn't been turned into exam factories with teachers and support staff suffering under the burden of over-regulation and too much paperwork, then there would be more time for children to learn about moral values and virtues.
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That's an indictment of the lack of political education in our schools, although it's little wonder given the way they've become exam factories, with little space or energy for preparation for life rather than just tests.
«They know, even if the government doesn't, that schools that prioritise well - being, which includes challenging and stretching students, also build character and help them to perform better than those schools which are just exam factories.»
Lucie Russell, director of campaigns at mental health charity Young Minds, which backed the report, said: «Both pupils and teachers are under a lot of pressure to achieve results in a pressure cooker, exam factory environment.
He said: «It is quite staggering the degree to which the government is unable to understand how their approach to the measurement of the performance of schools, and the system as a whole, is turning schools into exam factories.
In an open letter to the education secretary Nicky Morgan, campaigners have warned of schools becoming «exam factories» and that testing causes stress and can make young children feel like «failures».
Funding cuts mean sixth - form colleges are in danger of becoming nothing more than exam factories.
On the same day that the Shadow Education Secretary will say that he wants to move away from «the narrow, «exam factory» vision of recent years a unique alliance of teachers, students, parents, local government representatives, governors, international experts and businesses has come together to produce a vision of what is being called Big Education.
Schools need to be so much more than exam factories.
The National Union of Teachers» (NUT) has accused the government of «turning schools at all levels into exam factories».
Commenting after the debate on Motion 35, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The impact of the Government's education policies is turning our schools into exam factories.
Independent research, «Exam Factories?»
The National Union of Teachers» conference heard warnings that schools had become «exam factories».
In an open letter to the education secretary, campaigners have warned of schools becoming «exam factories» and that testing causes stress and can make young children feel like «failures».
We are no exam factory: sport and the arts are very important to us.
«For many teachers this exam factory culture is the final straw, not only for the huge amount of time it adds to their workload but also in the knowledge that it generates a stultifying education system that can damage the health of the children they teach.
The NUT, alongside teacher unions and NGO's from across the globe, have huge concerns about the role played by «edu - business» in shaping an education policy increasingly based upon high - stakes testing, an increasing «exam factory» culture in schools, and the spread of for - profit education.
«An exam factory culture takes the joy out of discovering and gaining knowledge and can reduce school to a series of grinding test practices.
Exam factories Exam Factories?
Yet we also know that an exam factory culture enforced by the Government squeezes out the opportunities for learning about what respectful relationships look like across the curriculum.
The report, Exam Factories?
As this report shows, schools are on the verge of becoming «exam factories».»
The «Exam Factories?»
Sir Anthony Seldon, the vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and a former master of prestigious private school Wellington College, also criticised the «exams factory» in schools, which teach children in rows, write facts on a board, and ultimately have not changed «since the 1600s».
In education policy, we've identified the dreadfully damaging wrong directions taken by successive Tory and Labour government that have turned our schools into exam factories and laden students with huge amounts of unpayable debt.
Similarly, UK business leaders have accused the British education system of being little more than an exam factory that leaves young people without the skills they need to function in the modern workplace.