MINISTERS are facing fresh pressure to review the status of the country's joint schools quango.
The move follows calls for the creation of Education Scotland in 2011 from the merger of separate inspection and curriculum bodies to be reversed.
Tavish Scott, education spokesman for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, had called for the Scottish Parliament to agree to splitting up tyhe body.
However, following a debate in the Scottish Parliament the Green Party backed a Scottish Government amendment for the organisation to be reviewed.
Tavish Scott, education spokesman for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, said: "Education Scotland cannot continue as if nothing has happened.
"The lessons of perpetual change that has been the reality of the mismanagement of Curriculum for Excellence by this government must be learnt.
The governance review to be announced in June must now include the separation of policy and school inspections within Education Scotland."
Ross Greer, education spokesman for the Scottish Greens, said: "There is clearly a concern with Education Scotland wearing two hats, developing the curriculum and inspecting its implementation in schools. We will hold the government to this commitment to seriously consider splitting these functions."
Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland teaching union welcomed the review.
He said: "The decision to merge these functions prompted the EIS to raise concerns around the dual functions of the single organisation and its capacity to provide effective support for schools.
"Some seven years on, the EIS believes there remain tensions around responsibility for inspections and curricular support being encompassed within the same body.”
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