School test 'should be optional'

Published: 01 January, 2007

England's exams regulator is advising ministers to scrap their plans for a compulsory computer test for teenagers. The aim is for all 14-year-olds to do the online test in ICT (information and communication technology) from 2008. It is currently being piloted widely.

But ministers have questioned the need for another statutory test, and the QCA watchdog has now decided it is an unnecessary "burden" for schools. It says the test should be just one tool teachers use to assess progress. School leaders are delighted.

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