Sentences with phrase «causes exam boards»

By Cassie Chambers Competition causes exam boards to fight to reach the bottom first, a government committee said today.

Competition causes exam boards to fight to reach the bottom first, a government committee said today.

Not exact matches

It also noted that arranging resits for extra subjects could cause timetabling issues and large costs for exam boards.

However, exam boards say that this is causing pupils to take to social media and make misleading comments through trying to predict their grades.

Mr Gove told MPs that previous course specifications «were too vague» and had caused «suspicion and speculation that some exam boards were «harder» than others».

OCR's chief executive, Mark Dawe, said his exam board was determined to avoid a repeat of last summer, and had embarked on a vigorous recruitment drive as well as adding extra capacity to the software platforms that caused problems in 2014.

Ofqual said the number of errors in some exam boards» materials was «noteworthy», and it was seeking assurance from all boards they had «identified the causes» and taken steps to reduce their occurrence.

The RAD says this has caused problems for its own ballet examinations and is also an issue for children taking dance, drama and music exams with some other boards.

Exam boards do not take the blame for the damage they cause and the government does nothing about it.