Scottish education is due a massive overhaul.
Details to be released soon will lay out the roadmap for creating a new qualifications system and reformers hope it will level the playing field for students from all backgrounds.
With The Herald’s School League Tables out today, the focus is squarely on exam assessment and student attainment.
Despite flaws in the system, measuring the rate of five or more Highers remains how parents, universities and others compare schools.
But that’s likely to change.
Calls for fewer exams have dominated discussions surrounding the Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment (IRQA).
