Exam Boards

Strip Money-Hungry Exam Boards Of Right To Set Tests, Urge MPs

PA | Posted 03.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education

MPs have called for reforms to remove "perverse incentives" for students to take dumbed-down exams at school. Exam boards competing to attract busi...

A-Level Exam Scrapped Over 'Security Breach'

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 14.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

An A-level exam paper due to be taken next week has been scrapped over concerns of a "security breach", one of the country's main exam boards has conf...

Exams Have Become 'Aggressively Commercialised'

PA | Posted 11.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Exam boards should be banned from endorsing textbooks and training courses to prevent the "aggressive commercialisation" of education, a leading headm...

Gove Signals Major Exam Board Reforms Over 'Cheating' Claims

PA | Posted 08.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Direct competition between examination boards could be scrapped under reform plans being considered by Education Secretary Michael Gove. Amid qu...

Third Examiner Suspended After Boasting About 'Easier Exams'

PA | Posted 09.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A third examiner has been suspended as inquiries continued into allegations that teachers were given unfair advice and told that one exam board set ea...

The Importance of Trust in our Education System

Stephen Twigg | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Stephen Twigg

Michael Gove is obsessed with a number of pet projects affecting a very small proportion of children in England. It is not good enough to offer an education system that focuses on the few, not the many.

Exam Boards To Be Fined Over Future Mistakes

PA | Posted 07.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Exam boards are to be fined over future mistakes in GCSE and A-level papers, it has been revealed. This comes after a series of blunders in this su...

Blunders By Exam Boards 'Unusual But Not A Failure Of The System'

PA | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

The series of blunders in this year's A-levels and GCSEs were "unusual" and do not show an overall failure of the exams system, it has ...