Head teachers have again faced problems accessing their schools’ key stage 2 SATs results this morning – despite government promising just a few months ago they were “confident” previous issues had been ironed out.
Leaders were met with multiple error messages when accessing the Primary Access Gateway from 7.30am, including one reading it was “currently unavailable for planned maintenance”.
The Standards and Testing Agency and £107 million contractor Capita said it had run “robust” tests this year to make sure the “system will cope with the large spike of users” after similar events last summer.
A ‘lessons learned’ review, published in April, was commissioned after failings last year including late results, lost scripts and unanswered helpline calls.
