{"id":11921,"date":"2025-11-01T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/bridget-phillipson-ready-to-take-on-unions-over-year-8-reading-tests\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:49:05","slug":"bridget-phillipson-ready-to-take-on-unions-over-year-8-reading-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/bridget-phillipson-ready-to-take-on-unions-over-year-8-reading-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Phillipson \u2018ready to take on unions\u2019 over year 8 reading tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Bridget Phillipson \u2018ready to take on unions\u2019 over year 8 reading tests<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle \u2018shocking outcomes\u2019 for many working-class childrenBridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricular activities for all children to prevent them becoming \u201cstuck in a doom loop of detachment\u201d from school.The education secretary said that teaching unions, who have argued the tests were \u201cunnecessary and distracting\u201d, should \u201creally think carefully\u201d about whether they could justify standing in the way of tackling the \u201cshocking outcomes\u201d that exist for many working-class children. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/nov\/01\/bridget-phillipson-unions-oppose-reading-tests-year-8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Education+secretary+says+mandatory+test+needed+to+tackle+%E2%80%98shocking+outcomes%E2%80%99+for+many+working-class+childrenBridget+Phillipson+has+said+she+is+ready+to+take+on+the+unions+in+a+battle+over+compulso\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Bridget Phillipson \u2018ready to take on unions\u2019 over year 8 reading tests Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle \u2018shocking outcomes\u2019 for many working-class childrenBridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricular activities for all children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11922,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions\/11922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}