ANOTHER disaster in Scottish education could be avoided by letting schools delay the introduction of controversial new exams, teachers' leaders have warned.
Larry Flanagan, general secretary elect of the Educational Institute of Scotland, said the exams fiasco of 2000 only affected a minority of pupils, but was a "catastrophe" for those involved.
And he argued that even if current problems with the roll-out of exams related to the new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) resulted in poorer marks for a small percentage of pupils, it would still be a huge blow for the school system.
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