Sentences with phrase «exam body»

Independent schools are no longer included in the figures in this latest annual report taken from exam bodies.

The OCR exam body said: «The five GCSE exam boards are working hard with the regulator to address the challenges posed by the current GCSEs - even though they were originally approved by that regulator.

While the exams watchdog Ofqual has told exam boards they must be able to show that rises in results correlate to better performances, teachers and exam bodies continue to argue pupils are taught better and work harder.

SCOTLAND»S national exams body is under the spotlight over whether it is paying teachers less than both the minimum and living wages for specialist marking duties.

The AQA biology exam is the first of this year's GCSE furores, but it won't be the only paper with a difficult question and, eventually, at least one exam will have an error in it — at which point I half expect the internet to melt along with the unfortunate exam body's phone lines.

Mr Gove indicated exam bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland would still be able to offer the AS / A2 combination.

All candidates will receive their results in the post, but many will learn of their grades by text message or email if they have online accounts with exam body the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).

Swansea Crown Court was told the parents contacted the exam body to

The exam body have assured students that grade boundaries have been reduced, meaning that candidates will still get the grade they deserve despite the apparent difficulty of the test.

Whilst the exam body recommend to teach unit by unit I personally prefer to deliver the course as one big project as it suited my learners needs better, but this does make it a little difficult to assess unit by unit but it is not impossible.

The exams body said there was no suggestion of a security breach and a spokesman added that it had procedures in place to deal with situations like this.

The exams body said there was no suggestion of a security breach.

Scotland's exam body has admitted to a series of mistakes in one of this year's computer science tests.

Rules designed to stop families in England taking term - time holidays are also preventing some children taking external dance, drama and music exams in school hours, says an exam body.

The exams body admitted the exam was harder than anticipated and said grade boundaries were adjusted accordingly.

An exams body has raised concerns that the situation which led to the re-grading of more than 2,000 English language GCSE papers in Wales last year could arise again.