PLANS to have a mandatory question on Scottish literature in Higher English exams will undermine a wider aim to encourage greater study of Scottish classics, education unions have warned.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said the Government's plan to include at least one question on a Scottish novel, play or poem in the exams from 2014/15 would encourage more school staff merely to "teach to the test".
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