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Teachers call for halt to 'unstable' exam reforms

Teachers at some of the country's leading independent schools have called on the Government to halt exam reforms so they can get on with doing their job.

A report published today at the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference said pupils want "a period of stability in the structure of national qualifications to allow schools to concentrate on their central priority of improving teaching and learning".

The report states that schools and students are confronted by a system "of considerable complexity and fluidity".

It added that teachers feel frustrated by "the imposed framework of national examinations, parental and learner expectations of high grades and the increasing demands of selector universities".

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