Sentences with phrase «by exam regulator»

The annual survey of perceptions, which was published by exam regulator Ofqual, also shows that 39 per cent of parents, 16 per cent of young people and six per cent of teachers are still unaware of the new system.

Commenting on the announcement by exams regulator Ofqual that it is requiring each exam board to take actions to improve the control of exam papers, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

Questions would have to go through quality assurance processes before being used for a real exam and the plan would need to be approved by the exams regulator Ofqual in order to go ahead.

Around 70 per cent of parents and pupils surveyed by the exams regulator Ofqual did not understand the new numerical GCSE grading system.

According to data released by the exams regulator Ofqual, 355 appeals were made against results in 2016, in comparison to 466 in 2015.

However, around 70 per cent of more than 400 parents and pupils surveyed by the exams regulator Ofqual did not understand the system.

Subject difficulty is «the lesser of three concerns» for pupils when choosing what to study, a report by the exams regulator Ofqual has found.

Under proposed reforms to the system by which schools can challenge results, set out recently by the exams regulator Ofqual, exam boards will eventually have to accept requests from schools for access to marked GCSE papers, as they already currently do for A levels, but it is not yet know when this will be implemented.

A separate consultation on A-level coursework and on the new AS - levels for the same 14 subjects was also launched on Friday by the exams regulator, Ofqual.

The slight decline in C grades is again linked by the exams regulator to some movement of pupils likely to get this grade to other qualifications.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile exam regulator Ofqual has been rebuked by MPs on the education committee, who said its role in qualification design was likely to come «under significant pressure» as the GCSE reforms progress.

Exams regulator Ofqual has said that the increase in requests could be partly explained by the move towards linear assessment.

The report by exam and testing regulator, Ofqual, examines problems with the 2017 moderation arrangements for teacher assessments of writing and highlights difficulties in training, differences in how long schools had to prepare for moderation and variations in the way that moderators» visits were conducted.

Exams regulator Ofqual has warned that there is an increasing number of scams taking place in schools by individuals posing as exams officers in order to obtain unseen test paExams regulator Ofqual has warned that there is an increasing number of scams taking place in schools by individuals posing as exams officers in order to obtain unseen test paexams officers in order to obtain unseen test papers.

The number of GCSE grades changed rocketed by 52 per cent this year, and Ofqual's chief regulator Sally Collier this week blamed the rise on exam boards that did not follow new rules for grade reviews introduced in 2016.

The Welsh government is the exam regulator in Wales, while in England the job is done by Ofqual, which has said it does not see the need for a regrade.

Appeals against GCSE and A level results have fallen by almost a quarter, the exams regulator Ofqual has said.

Ofqual, the exams regulator, has launched a consultation on a wave of reforms designed to reduce the risk of cheating by teacher - examiners.

The exams watchdog's investigation showed that some boards had awarded extra marks despite not finding errors in the original marking and that re-marking rules imposed by England's exam regulator had been ignored.

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.

The exam regulator's announcement last week that it would lift the restriction on pupils requesting re-marks directly from exam boards was rejected by the four boards that set and mark GCSEs and A-levels.

But this scheme (described by some as a return to O - levels taken until the later 1980s) was abandoned in the face of strong opposition from the Liberal Democrats, the exams regulator Ofqual and MPs on the Education Select Committee.

This is likely to be pursued by the education select committee on Wednesday, when MPs examine the homework of the exam regulator, Ofqual.

The case against the regulator Ofqual and exam boards AQA and Edexcel had been brought by a total of 167 individual pupils, supported by 150 schools and 42 councils, plus six professional bodies, including teachers» unions.

Lord Justice Elias said it was «the structure of the qualification itself which is the source of such unfairness as has been demonstrated in this case, and not any unlawful action» by the Ofqual exam regulator or exam boards.

Under the changes, already being pushed through by England's exams regulator, Ofqual, pupils will also be banned from resitting individual unit exams.

His point was that despite CLE requirements, lawyers aren't actually assessed by regulators as their careers progress — it's assumed that if they attend an accredited law school, get a certain degree and pass a bar exam, law students are competent to become lawyers.