School tests breach UN convention, envoy claims Will Woodward, education editor Monday July 14, 2003 The Guardian The government is breaching the United Nations convention on children's rights by imposing a targets and testing regime in English schools that ignores their needs, a UN representative has warned. In an interview with the Guardian, Katarina Tomasevski, special rapporteur on the right to education for the UN commission on human rights, said she believed the British government was in technical breach of the convention. Article 29 says education should be "directed to the development of the child's personality, talents and mental and...