“The last exam board in England offering art history A-level will drop the subject from 2018, marking the latest in a cull of perceived “soft” subjects following the curriculum changes begun by the former education secretary Michael Gove” ─ Read …
BBC News: Teachers ‘wasting time on marking in coloured pens’
“Teachers are spending too much time over-marking pupils’ homework,” Schools Standards Minister Nick Gibb has said. Marking in different-coloured pens, and giving feedback in exercise books, had never been a government or an Ofsted requirement. The practice was adding to …