Sentences with phrase «exam markers»

In the wake of the forthcoming exam marker shortage, Mark Dawe, chief executive of the exam board OCR, has said all suitable teachers should learn to mark exam papers as a form of professional development.

This week, TES reported that OCR has been hoping to recruit retired teachers as exam markers, by advertising in P&O's cruise magazine.

OCR's admission comes amidst fears of a growing exam marker shortage.

Andrew Harland, chief executive of the Exams Officers Association, said exam markers were now less likely to annotate papers with comments, which often resulted in a «tremendous waste of money» for schools that request scripts only to find they don't provide information on which to base an appeal or enquiry.

An awards scheme that will recognise «exceptional commitment» from exam markers is being set up by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) to entice more teachers to take...

So when everyone has finished putting the boot into exam markers, their standards and whether or not the system is working, all I can say is that those of us in the system trying to make it work at the coal face are doing our best in very difficult circumstances.

The DfE, Ofqual and the schools regulator, Ofsted, needed to nudge schools to allow teachers to act as exam markers, because of the valuable skills it encouraged, Dawe said.

Exam markers were accused of making school students the victims of political football today, after results showed the first decline in results in GCSE history.

Even with no objective laboratory or exam markers, she says, the results of this study suggest that PTLDS can be diagnosed through careful and thorough examination of symptoms.

And in May, the answers to a key stage 2 English test were uploaded onto a password - protected site accessible to exam markers the night before pupils were due to sit it.