Sentences with phrase «chief exams regulator»
This order for re-writes comes just six school weeks before students are due to start studying for the exams, but chief exams regulator Glenys Stacey rejected the idea that Ofqual had left it too late.
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Glenys Stacey, Ofqual's chief regulator, told the education secretary that new A-level exams in mathematics would not be ready until 2016, while many new GCSEs would not be prepared in time to meet Gove's target for them to be taught in 2015.»
Sally Collier, Ofqual's chief regulator, said: «Exam boards must absolutely correct marking errors, and do it quickly.
Ofqual chief regulator, Sally Collier, commented: «There will always be a period of adjustment following any change, and we are working with exam boards to identify what can be done this year to be even more confident that students are getting the results their performance deserves.»
Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier told TES, that her organisation's immediate focus would be to ensure there was clarity among heads, teachers and students approaching exams.
Glenys Stacey, chief executive of the Ofqual exam regulator, has also warned that changes in the exam system could hit individual schools in different ways.
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.
From 2011, she chaired exams regulator Ofqual three days a week, working with then chief executive Glenys Stacey.
Sally Collier, chief regulator Ofqual, said while grade standards between exams boards in the same subject are expected to be comparable, inter-subject comparability is «more difficult to consider».
Ofqual needs to do more to stop «simple errors» in how schools deliver exams — although mistakes, security breaches and malpractice will continue, says new chief regulator Sally Collier.
Ofqual chief Glenys Stacey said the regulator's decisions over exam grades had been «the right thing and the fairest thing, for the right reasons».
Ofqual's chief regulator Glenys Stacey has already said she expects exam results will «vary more than normal» for several years as the new exams become established.