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How to retain examiners? Show them the money
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Feb 18, 2019
Joint Council for Qualifications appoints director general
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Feb 13, 2019
Exam boards to choose own programming assessments for computer science GCSE
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Jan 23, 2019
Technology 'could end summer exam season'
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Dec 11, 2018
Exam board marking league tables delayed by monitoring concerns
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Dec 3, 2018
Chief executive of Scotland’s exam body set to retire
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Oct 27, 2018
Pay rise for £450k-a-year exam board chief
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Oct 24, 2018
Scottish exam body accused of ‘piling pressure on schools’
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Oct 17, 2018
Hinds: ‘I’m happy with system of multiple exam boards’
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Damian Hinds
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Oct 13, 2018
New boss announced for OCR exam board
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Oct 5, 2018
JCQ boss to take job at AQA exam board
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Sep 11, 2018
Transparency call as English regulator keeps key papers secret
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Sep 3, 2018
Exam result details now obtainable for free under GDPR
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Aug 29, 2018
Summer 2018 data exchange procedure
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Aug 23, 2018
Tiered 9 to 1 GCSEs in languages and sciences, 2018
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Aug 23, 2018
A-level remarking 'favours those with money' and penalises 'working-class kids', union claims
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Aug 16, 2018
Exam board to show students exactly where they went wrong
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Aug 16, 2018
Transgender teens can remove gender from A-level qualifications in major exam board shift
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Aug 15, 2018
Exam boards launch review as parents exploit mental health loophole to get students extra time
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Aug 14, 2018
Exam boards launch review as parents exploit loophole to get students extra time
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Aug 13, 2018
Latest information and updates from WJEC
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Aug 13, 2018
Exam boards are struggling to keep pace with modern cheating, malpractice inquiry chair warns
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Aug 3, 2018
Education secretary ‘welcomes’ awarding bodies decision to withdraw T-levels legal challenge
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Aug 2, 2018
OCR forced to pay £187K for GCSE exam blunder
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Jul 27, 2018
Teams scour social media to catch A-level and GCSE cheats
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Jul 26, 2018
Commission launched into exam malpractice
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Jul 26, 2018
Ofqual raps exam boards for 'misleading' seminars
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Jul 19, 2018
Exam boards launch legal challenge over government's flagship T-level qualifications
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Jul 18, 2018
Is one exam board per T-level the ‘testing ground’ for A-levels?
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Jul 15, 2018
Exam board fined £175,000 for GCSE question that mixed up Romeo and Juliet families
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Jul 3, 2018
Exam board to be fined record £175,000 after mixing up Montagues and Capulets in GCSE paper
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Jul 2, 2018
Shakespeare rewrite means six-figure fine for exam board OCR
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Jul 2, 2018
Thou art a villain: Ofqual fines exam board for Montague mix-up
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Jul 2, 2018
Exam board OCR faces £175k fine over elementary Romeo and Juliet error in English literature GCSE
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Jul 2, 2018
New CEO for Cambridge International exam board
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Jun 27, 2018
Exam board 'sorry' for audio mix-up in French and Spanish A-levels
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Jun 19, 2018
'Impossible' French A-level exam 'a disgrace' say students
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Jun 19, 2018
Stab victim who missed GCSEs in hospital is denied his grades
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May 23, 2018
Scotland: Heads on the block after history exam gets wrong date for death of Mary Queen of Scots
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May 22, 2018
Pupils ‘upset’ after exam board’s blunder over Mary Queen of Scots
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May 22, 2018
Scotland: Exam board’s fatal error over Mary Queen of Scots
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May 22, 2018
Exam board leaders criticise three-year GCSE courses
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Apr 16, 2018
Term-time holiday rules stop children taking dance exams
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Mar 29, 2018
Ofqual cracks down on exam board reviewers’ marking changes
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Mar 20, 2018
Check results of pupils taught by teacher-examiners for cheating, exam boards told
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Mar 14, 2018
Four things Ofqual says exam boards can do to clamp down on teacher-examiner cheats
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Mar 14, 2018
OCR suffers 20% drop in awards as schools flee iGCSE
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Mar 2, 2018
Hacking could cause you 'significant harm', Ofqual warns exam boards
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Mar 2, 2018
OCR fined £125k after GCSE exam answers found in textbooks
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Mar 2, 2018
Ofqual to fine OCR over textbooks that gave answers to GCSE computing controlled assessments
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Mar 2, 2018
Pupils could help exam board to spot errors in its GCSEs
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Feb 22, 2018
Thousands of teachers caught cheating in tests as MPs demand transparency from exam boards
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Feb 11, 2018
Lack of tech in exams is denying pupils their ‘normal way of working’
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Feb 2, 2018
AQA admits breaking rules on exam re-marks
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Dec 21, 2017
Ofqual chief blames exam boards for big rise in GCSE grade changes
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Dec 19, 2017
School examiners ignoring new rules on re-marking
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Dec 15, 2017
Ofqual criticises exam boards for flouting new rules on remarks amid huge spike in GCSE grade changes
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Dec 14, 2017
Some multi academy trusts move to synchronise exam boards
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Oct 7, 2017
Fake exam certificate website shut down
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Sep 26, 2017
Pupils sit two maths GCSEs to cheat tables
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Sep 26, 2017
Schools enter pupils for GCSE's with different exam boards
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Sep 25, 2017
Publish the exam results of A level and GCSE candidates studying independently says education charity
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Sep 25, 2017
Exam boards launch GCSE 'double entry' investigation amid claims that schools are breaking rules
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Sep 25, 2017
Parents turning to Google to navigate jargon-laden SQA website
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Sep 8, 2017
National Education Union comment on DfE not approving vocational qualifications
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Sep 7, 2017
HMC statement: protecting teachers and ensuring probity in the setting and teaching of examinations
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Aug 30, 2017
Eton pupils' marks disallowed over second exam paper leak
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Aug 30, 2017
Teachers ‘must stop setting exams for own pupils’
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Aug 30, 2017
'Cheating' scandal: Teachers shift blame to exam boards
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Aug 29, 2017
Pupils traumatised by Grenfell Tower and Manchester Arena bombing win special exam treatment
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Aug 17, 2017
A-Level students left under prepared and disadvantaged for this year's exams, finds survey
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Aug 16, 2017
Exam boards decline to publish A level grade boundaries ahead of results day to protect student mental health
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Aug 16, 2017
What entry level qualifications available for students?
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Aug 15, 2017
A levels exam chiefs deny ‘dumbing down’ standards for better results
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Aug 13, 2017
Music exam board accused of 'dumbing down' with multiple choice questions
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Aug 12, 2017
Appeals expected to rise as major exam boards allows schools to download scripts on results day
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Aug 11, 2017
Confusion reigns over new rules for independent coursework reviews
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Aug 9, 2017
Exam boards scrub terror references to avoid distress
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Times
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Jul 29, 2017
GCSE and A level exams altered in wake of Manchester terrorist attack to remove sensitive content
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Jul 28, 2017
Manchester bombing led to 11th-hour changes to exam papers
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Jul 28, 2017
Schools get right to appeal GCSE and A-level ‘marking errors’
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Jun 28, 2017
Exam boards ask students and NQTs to mark GCSE and A-level exam papers
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Apr 13, 2017
Exam board faces £50,000 Ofqual fine for handling of qualifications fraud case
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Feb 27, 2017
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