Around half of examiners are unhappy with their pay and almost six in ten find their work stressful, according to a survey by regulator Ofqual.
It follows several tumultuous years in which the Covid pandemic caused widespread disruption to exams. Examiners were furloughed and offered pay-offs not to work, and even faced delays to payments last year.
The survey of almost 15,000 examiners was conducted last year. Although around nine in ten respondents found their role meaningful and were proud of what they do, “not all aspects of examining were viewed as positively”.
Fifty-seven per cent of respondents reported their examining roles were stressful, this is slightly worse than when Ofqual last asked examiners. In 2018, 55 per cent reported they found their role stressful.
