The woman in charge of delivering the controversial new exams for Scottish schools has said the programme is 'on track'. Responding to growing fears over the new qualifications and the wider introduction of the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Gill Stewart, director of qualifications development at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) described teachers' concerns as 'understandable'.

"If I were a teacher and someone asked me right now if I was confident of delivering these qualifications, I would say 'no, because I haven't seen them. It is a perfectly understandable response" said Ms. Stewart, before adding "it is a big change all at once for the school sector, but we have two clear years to develop these qualifications and two years is a reasonable amount of time for that work."

The introduction of the CfE has been widely questioned by teachers for the lack of information, preparation and training time, according to an article in the Herald Scotland.

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