Welcome to the parents' section of the GTC website. The GTC, as the professional body for teachers, regulates the teaching profession. It exists to encourage and uphold the highest quality of teaching for your children.
This Autumn we have a focus on the future of assessment which is based on the views of parents whom we have consulted.
Assessment is a hot issue. When the General Teaching Council (GTC) recently suggested replacing end of Key Stage assessment tests for under 16s it spa...
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The debate over how we test our children's performance in our state schools raises more hackles amongst parents than almost any other subject. Are we crushing the inquiring spirit out of our children by the heaviest testing in Europe? Or is testing a vital guide to getting our children the best education?
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