Sentences with phrase «after exam boards»

The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.

The news comes after exam board OCR said it would stop providing GCSEs and A-levels in French, Spanish and German.

AQA is being told by Ofqual to comply with the rules after the exam board broke a number of regulations over how and when grades should be changed.

«The Advanced Placement History course will now be more patriotic after the exam board caved to conservative pressure.

Not exact matches

After passing the board exam, I was sad not because there wouldn't be a new car waiting for me in the garage, but because I wouldn't be able to share my greatest achievement with him.

Lactation Consultants who have the initials IBCLC or RLC after their names have completed rigorous training, including hundreds of hours of supervised experience, and passed a certifying exam given by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners, which is independently accredited.

She received her Lactation Counseling Certification in 2002, and after the birth of her son in 2004, Ayelet passed the International Board Certification exam.

After completing the required courses, Jennifer passed the exam to become a Board Certified Lactation Consultant in October 2015.

After completing these requirements, potential IBCLCs are eligible to sit for the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) exam.

The SRC had earlier called for the school's Independent Examinations Board, which conducted the exams and was responsible for the marking of the scripts, to be scrapped, describing it as a threat to legal education in Ghana, after only 91 of the over 500 students passed the exams.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

The report comes after a year - long inquiry by the education committee into how to improve exam boards.

He continued: «After that any board could set an exam for that syllabus and compete on innovation, efficiency, service and support.»

After the April exams are finished, the next step will be for the State Education Department and Board of Regents to design new teacher performance systems that individual districts will then work to adopt by November.

Pass NPLEX board exams that are written after the 2nd year and 4th year of study.

On Friday night of our recent L.A. trip, we headed to Beverly Hills and West Hollywood after Jake finished his board exam.

After being caught stealing final exams, Zip and Zap (Raúl Rivas and Daniel Cerezo) are sent to a strict boarding school run by a no - nonsense headmaster named Falconetti.

«It is essential that students can rely on the exam system after years of hard work, and we'd recommend that all exam boards read this report to learn lessons from last year.

The option is expected to be considered by several officials, after Schools Minister Nick Gibb ordered that options should be reviewed in order to reform exam boards.

After the tragic events of this summer, such as the Grenfell Tower fire, and the introduction of more linear GCSE and A-levels the exam boards decided to lower this to 25 per cent for summer 2017.

Ofqual said that the decision was made after analysing more than 2,500 responses to its consultation, which was launched given evidence that some of this year's tasks had been posted to online forums and collaborative programming sites, contrary to exam board rules.

FURTHER PROBLEMS The subject of GCSE computer science was shrouded by more dark clouds, when recent news emerged that the exam board OCR had been fined # 125k by Ofqual after GCSE computer science exam answers were found in textbooks.

The error comes weeks after the same exam board made a mistake in a GCSE English Literature exam question in relation to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in May.

Hague continued to say that exam boards already have a process in place for transgender students who transition after sitting exams, and want to change the information on their certificate in line with their new identity.

AQA is currently the only exam board in the UK offering the subject and it announced last week that Art History would not be offered to new students after this year.

Teachers» leaders last week accused exam boards of creating a «massive muddle» after Ofqual data revealed that almost 74,000 GCSE grades were changed this summer, compared with just over 48,000 last year.

Now, after months spent defending the document, the College Board has released a revised set of guidelines for the exam, known as APUSH.

Previously, a further appeal after a review would focus only on the procedures used by the exam board when marking the test, but schools will now be able to appeal the mark itself if they believe it was not corrected during the review.

Two controlled assessment units in a computing GCSE have been withdrawn by an exam board, after the answers appeared on the internet.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men are among the US literary classics dropped by a GCSE exam board after education secretary Michael Gove called for more British works to be studied.

The Illinois State Board of Education has launched an investigation into why so many kids in certain districts skipped state exams last year — which may include questioning parents and even students after several hundred schools failed test participation requirements.

Ofqual's move also comes after the Telegraph released video footage of a conversation between an undercover reporter and a chief examiner at Edexcel who claimed the company's GCSE geography tests were not as difficult as those from other exam boards

Some districts paid for their own ACT testing after that, and in early 2016, the College Board won a bid to administer its SAT college entrance exam to public school juniors in Illinois.

«If they pick up concerns from pupils after a paper and if teachers consider a question to be unfair, then schools should do everything they can to reassure pupils and take up the issue with the exam board.»

An exam board says it has been put in a «difficult and unexpected» position after Wales» education minister asked for English GCSEs to be regraded.

WJEC exam board employees worked overtime after the Welsh education minister said the original marking criteria disadvantaged students.

The reputation of the Welsh exam board is at stake after claims some of its examiners gave teachers unfair advice on upcoming GCSE questions, says the education minister.

The Welsh exams board WJEC has launched an internal review after concerns were raised over results for a new GCSE in English taken in January.

Others signed online petitions demanding exam board Edexcel lower the grade boundaries after finding a GCSE maths paper «ridiculously hard».

But two investigations by exam board OCR also influenced the Department for Education's decision after it upheld two accusations of exam malpractice in a single subject.

However, board meeting minutes showed that they were also the most likely group to have their position reconsidered by governors after two years, usually because exam results were not improving early enough.

They include the McGill Plan, named after the student board member who proposed modifying the bus schedule during high school mid-term and final exams.

Possibly not, judging from the row which erupted after two exam boards, Edexcel and OCR, criticised AQA sample papers for not being sufficiently challenging.

More than 45,000 students are to resit their English GCSEs next month after a row about grades, figures given to the BBC by exam boards show.

Just months after the College Board unveiled the new SAT this March, a person with access to material for upcoming versions of the redesigned exam provided Reuters with hundreds of confidential test items.

An exam board has apologised for «poorly wording» an A Level Psychology test question weeks after making an error in a GCSE paper.

After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the College Board, the maker of the SAT, the SAT Subject Tests, AP Tests, and other exams, issued a statement, which was sent in an email to all college admission officers, from its president and CEO, David Coleman.

Last month, Schools Week revealed that the exam board Edexcel had replaced the NEA component of its computer science GCSE after admitting an error in its security settings meant pupils may have seen the content of the test in advance.

The Welsh government is to «carefully consider» a report by England's exams regulator after it refused to order exam boards to regrade English GCSEs.

Heads suggested the exams had been marked over-harshly after Ofqual told exam boards to keep an eye on grade inflation