Sentences with phrase «exam boards in»

The XO tablet that the two states are considering as an alternative to the stagnant or intermittent Aakash project is in reality a laptop that would have all the study material for different exam boards in the country.

A decision by two exam boards in England means pupils in Northern Ireland will have a reduced choice of GCSE courses.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has suggested elite universities should be given a key role alongside exam boards in setting and approving A-levels.

Teachers would familiarise themselves with the questions from the other exam boards in order that they would be able to judge them alongside their own board.

I am hopeful of tailoring them to other exam boards in the future though.

Mark Dawe, chief executive of OCR, said: «The shortage of examiners is a system - wide problem which has affected all exam boards in recent years.

«Exam boards in conversations with the regulator Ofqual will ensure these exams are fairly comparable with previous years... These decisions have been made because the exam boards and the regulator have sought to ensure this year and every year that these exam results are comparable every year.»

It is not designed with any specific exam board in mind but the topics and activities should be applicable to all media courses.

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.

These sheets have been created according to the EDEXCEL Business Studies specification, however will compliment any exam board in the build up to mock / actual exams.

Collier also alluded to regulatory action being taken against more than one exam board in relation to the increase when she addressed the parliamentary education committee on Tuesday, but would not say more.

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».

The qualifications are to be set by a single exam board in English, maths, the sciences, history, geography and languages, to avoid exam boards competing to offer the easiest examinations in what has been termed a «race to the bottom».

The exam board in Wales, the WJEC, is saying hang on, earlier in the summer both regulators in England and Wales told us to change grade boundaries.

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.

Intensely interested in infant nutrition and breastfeeding, Dr. Gordon is the first male physician to sit for and pass the International Board of Lactation Certification Exam and has served on the Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League for 24 years.

Completing the courses successfully and 500 + clinical hours later, I sat for the IBCLE exam in July 2013 and was awarded the title International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).

In 2012, the International Board of Lactation Consultants Examiners (IBLCE) Board of Directors introduced new eligibility criteria for candidates wishing to sit the IBCLC exam and obtain IBCLC certification.

Over that same period she taught in the German - language training program for the qualifying exam for International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC).

The Master of Science in Athletic Training professional program prepares students for the national Board of Certification (BOC) exam and a career as an Athletic Trainer.

«The College Board recognized a few years ago that some of their courses were too narrow and were emphasizing memorization over deep mastery of content, and they are currently in the process of revamping several of their exams».

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Look for someone who's board certified — this indicates she's received formal and clinical education in breastfeeding and has passed a rigorous exam.

Intensely interested in infant nutrition and breastfeeding, Dr. Gordon is the first male physician to sit for and pass the International Board of Lactation Certification Exam and has served on the Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League for twenty - four years.

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

The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners, which provides certification for lactation consultants, reports that the number of individuals sitting for the IBCLC exam increased slightly in 2010 and then spiked in 2011 (to over 6,000), due in part to the passage of the ACA in 2010.

In order to become an IBCLC I had to clock over 1500 one - on - one helping hours with breastfeeding mothers, take lactation specific education, as well as pass the board exam.

Both Certified Nurse - Midwives (CNM) and direct entry midwives who have passed the American Midwifery Certification Board (CMs) exam may practice and be licensed in NY.

Then, in 1985, the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners — created through help from LLLI — began its certification program, and the first IBCLC exam took place.

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I was able to complete an extensive breastfeeding course in preparation for the International Board of Lactation Consultants exam!

Check, I was able to get a medical education in one of the nation's top medical schools, pass the board exams, trained and qualified to be an ophthalmologist.

Certification by the AAP means that the doctor has graduated from an accredited medical school, completed an accredited residency program, and passed the board exam in pediatrics.

The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) announced that, beginning with its 2013 exam, all English - language publications will be available in only one form of English — British English.

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

In Pennsylvania, athletic trainers must be graduates of an accredited Athletic Training Education Program, pass the national Board of Certification exam, and remain current with their continuing education credits.

But the board did tell her it's had very few — if any — requests to accommodate nursing mothers, despite administering the exam more than 125,000 times in 2006.

He insisted on BBC News earlier that exam boards were responsible for ensuring exams are comparable with previous years — and that he had not been involved in the decisions at all.

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.

The highlight of the select committees sees the chairs of the country's top exam marking boards face the education committee to answer for the English GCSE shambles last year that saw pupils taking the exam in the summer marked differently to those in January.

«The Board and I have worked to ensure that safety net regulations are in place to support teaching students and that content of certification exams is appropriate.

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.

It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the premises of the school located in a swampy area covered with bush around 9.20 pm on Friday and made away with eight persons including three regular students and two others who were preparing for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board exams and three members of staff.

As an Academic Board member Prof. Vann will contribute to the oversight and approval in relation to ADIT examiners, syllabus, exam papers and involvement with taxation bodies around the world.

In Westchester County, the Pleasantville school board on Tuesday agreed to a plan that over the next two years will phase out use of the Regents Geometry and Algebra II exams while expanding college - level Advanced Placement exams.

Starting this autumn, exam boards will compete against each other to set the first O - levels in English, maths and the sciences, but the winner will set the exam taken nationwide.

And I will not proceed with plans to have a single exam board offering a new exam in each academic subject — instead we will concentrate on reforming existing GCSEs along the lines we put forward in September.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

The exam boards are overseen by three regulatory authorities: in England - Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator); in Wales - DCELLS (Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills; in Northern Ireland: CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments).