Sentences with phrase «awarding organisations»

Another proposal includes publishing further statutory guidance to help awarding organisations understand the factors and approaches they should consider when deciding how to comply with the rules.

The regulator announced the new requirements in October to «make sure qualifications are appropriately described by awarding organisations».

In addition, CCEA is the main awarding organisation for GCSE and A-Level qualifications, as well as the qualifications regulator.

Ofqual has set out how it intends to strengthen its regulation of awarding organisations» involvement of teachers in the development of confidential assessment materials.

The proposals include explicitly setting out in Ofqual rules steps awarding organisations must take to help protect the integrity of the assessments to which teachers have contributed.

«It is therefore essential that we continue to work with regulators and with other awarding organisations to ensure comparability and consistency of standards within the GCSE brand.

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The consultation reflects detailed analysis of existing processes and extensive discussions with awarding organisations, examiners, teachers, students and parents.

As a UK awarding organisation regulated by the government bodies of Ofqual, QiW and CCEA, Qualifi can accredit quality institutions, programmes and award certifications that demonstrate attainment, skills, knowledge and understanding.

Lingotot's MFL programme for primary schools has been accredited by national awarding organisation NCFE to provide formal recognition to the thousands of students who complete its courses each year.

We continue to hold awarding organisations to account for the validity of their qualifications, and to take action where we find problems.

A newly released report from the international awarding organisation reveals that increasing numbers of students now expect access to on - demand learning, enabling them to learn at a time and place suited to them.

Education and training providers must embrace technology - enhanced learning solutions or risk losing out to more innovative providers, awarding organisation YMCA Awards has warned today.

At the moment there are nine Key Skills qualifications available to new learners in England, which are offered by a single awarding organisation.

Ofqual instead believes that it is not «appropriate to require awarding organisations to continue using a specification developed by a predecessor organisation many years ago».

Other proposals include having awarding organisations collate registers detailing conflicts of interest, teachers providing annual declarations to protect the confidentiality of assessment materials, routine reviews of pupil work to look for unusual patterns, and sampling teaching plans to see if teachers are narrowing their teaching.

To detect cheating, the regulator wants awarding organisations to review assessments of any students whose teachers had prior knowledge of exams.

Ofqual has said it will start auditing awarding organisations after June to ensure «the rules are being followed».

Unlike with lesson plan sampling, there was «broad agreement in principle that this is an attractive safeguard», and Ofqual believes this option gives awarding organisations a «potentially valuable safeguard which would permit the use of teachers in developing even the most high - stakes assessments».

But that changed after Ofqual wrote to awarding organisations last month to ask them to create a «safety net» for learners that had narrowly failed one or more of their exams.

A spokesperson for the WJEC said: «Our view is that this body also needs to be independent of awarding organisations, especially as it manages the risks associated with the ambitious qualifications development agenda set out by the Review of 14 - 19 Qualifications.»

The watchdog is now consulting on how it should amend its current rules to «explicitly set out» the steps awarding organisations must take to protect the integrity of assessments, and on the new rules it will put in place to enforce the rules.

FE Week understands that learners could be affected from other awarding organisations, including OCR, AQA and City and Guilds also offer their own versions of the qualifications.

However, awarding organisations must maintain up to date records of all conflicts of interest relating to teachers who have seen confidential assessment materials.

NCTL will no longer manage the programmes and accreditation will be overseen by an awarding organisation, the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

Members of the ASE's 11 - 19 and Primary committees, including teachers, researchers and professional development experts will continue to provide opportunities for members to support each other on the reforms and to engage with Ofqual, awarding organisations, government and others across our four nations.

This provides at least the opportunity for the awarding organisations to develop more up to date specifications that better reflect the needs of young people and the country.

At its launch a panel of expert practitioners from education and industry made compelling arguments for a pragmatic, solutions - focused call to action across government, awarding organisations, Ofqual and the broader D&T community.

Andy Mitchell, assistant chief executive of The Design and Technology Association, said: «The D&T Association believes that the revised subject content provides an excellent platform on which the awarding organisations can develop examination specifications reflecting developments in the subject and meeting better the needs of young people, employers, further and higher education and the country.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «If an awarding organisation like OCR chooses to offer a particular qualification it is incumbent upon them to make sure that they have sufficient high quality markers.

«Our regulations are clear that awarding organisations are required to minimise bias in assessment,» a spokesperson said.

«The regulators are liaising with each other and the awarding organisations concerned to get a fuller picture of what has happened and will then take any appropriate action promptly and consistently across the three countries.»

«As an awarding organisation, it is our responsibility to ensure that candidates receive the grade their work deserves.

On the whole, teachers had received letters from the Awarding Organisations saying that their marks had been accepted without adjustment.»

The regulator is also considering how to amend its rules to «best highlight the importance of mitigating risks where teachers are used to develop assessment materials, and make clear that all awarding organisations must consider these risks».

«Evidence must be provided to back up awarding organisations» claims about their qualifications.»

This PE teacher resource allows a comparison of the Awarding Organisations for alternative Level 2 qualifications.

Awarding organisations must now also establish and maintain an up - to - date register of all conflicts of interest for examiners.

Director Janet Graham said: «This is an area that the awarding organisations and Ofqual could explore in more depth.»

Amanda Hamilton is Chief Executive of the National Association of Licenced Paralegals (NALP), a non-profit Membership Body and the only Paralegal body that is recognised as an awarding organisation by Ofqual (the regulator of qualifications in England & Wales).

Within the further education sector itself, the Skills Blockchain project aims to provide learners with a digital audit trail of their achievements via work and home learning, as well as formal learning through existing providers and awarding organisations.