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We are in the process of moving some of the things that our legacy system does on to a corporate business system, to de-risk the main system. That is what Linda Ellison is currently working on.
In effect, it removes a whole bunch of talent that we desperately need in a tiny country such as Scotland. We must de-anchor ourselves from the idea that normal is okay—it is not okay.
And you would not use that kind of test if you were using it for national comparators. If it was not being used for national comparators, a school would choose what it wanted to use it for.