SCOTTISH Labour has called for a “radical overhaul” in Scotland’s education and new measures designed to end ministers “marking their own homework.”

The plans, outlined by Scottish Labour’s new leader Michael Marra, would see the reintroduction of the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) ditched by the Scottish government a decade ago, measuring school experience as well as exam results, standardising definitions and reporting across Scotland the introduction of a new Scottish Education Data dashboard to share the data.

Unveiling the plans weeks after Scotland had its poorest set of result since 2000 on the Programme for International Student Assessment, Mr Marra said: “Scotland’s education system used to be the best in the world and our ambition should be for it to be the best again.

“But to get there, we need to know where we are, and that means a radical overhaul in data transparency in the education system.

“We can’t allow a culture where ministers mark their own homework to continue, it’s letting down teachers, parents and most importantly of all, pupils.”

The Scottish government was contacted for comment.