GCSEs and A-levels should be replaced with alternative assessments in the long term, teachers have said. School staff now have a 'golden opportunity' to stop 'toxic testing' amid growing calls to reform the national assessments, the National Education Union's (NEU) virtual annual conference heard. A motion passed at the conference called for GCSEs and A-levels to be replaced with 'more flexible' means of assessment. The National Union of Education is seeking a major overhaul of both GCSE and A-Level examinations replacing the 'toxic' tests with a 'more flexible' means of assessment The union will also campaign for the abolition of Sats tests for primary school children