* Education minister Jack McConnell recently announced plans to move to a more uniform system of assessing children's attainment in pre-school using a standard recording procedure. Currently local authorities use their own systems for recording children's progress and pass information on to the primary school. Most systems are based on the teacher assessing by observation.
A spokesman for the Scottish Executive stressed, 'We are not going to move from observation to testing. We are looking at a more uniform system, but what we do will be in consultation with councils. We will probably move to one system that's the same across the country, leaving a degree of flexibility.'
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