TC09497 - [2025] UKFTT 00460 (TC)

In relation to the role of assessments in education, we were taken to a paper entitled “the assessment for learning strategy” published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and to some “assessment principles” published by the Department for Education. These papers didhighlight the importance of effective assessment systems within schools as a means of giving reliable information to parents and helping to drive improvements for pupils and teachers. However, it did not seem to us that these bore particularly on the nature of the supplies being made by GM. We also noted that the papers themselves referred to assessment being a way of raising pupils’ achievement and helping learners to know how to improve. This seemed to us consistent with the possibility that the process of assessment in education was to help to promote learning.