MAJOR reforms to GCSE and A-level exams could cause "incalculable" damage to children's education, headteachers have warned.
The move to assess most subjects through written papers only is a "retrograde step" with exams at risk of becoming "a feat of memory recall", the National Association of Head Teachers annual conference has heard.
Under sweeping government education reforms, new, tougher GCSEs and A-levels are due to be introduced in England from 2015 onwards, and modular courses scrapped.