Sentences with phrase «single exam board»

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».

In June 2012, Mr Gove announced plans to scrap GCSEs and replace them with English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs), with each subject set by a single exam board.

Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, welcomed the move towards having a single exam board per subject, which he said was sensible and would «remove a lot of concerns about the system».

Changing to a single exam board should bring greater clarity to what is being taught and to what standard.

I think a single exam board will remove a lot of concerns with the competition for easier exams.

Proposals include a single exam board and a different «more straightforward» exam, like the old CSE, for less academic pupils.

There was also uncertainty about the proposal to have a single exam board for each subject - as Mr Ray said that at present the only option available to a school unhappy with marking was to change exam board.

Plaid Cymru spokesman Simon Thomas said: «In the past, I have raised my concerns about the growing marketisation of the exam system, and have advocated a single exam board structure as a means creating a fairer playing field.

TES reported in January that ministers were readying plans for a single exam board amid fears of falling standards.

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.

Not exact matches

Plans to replace competing exam boards with one single entity also reportedly fell foul of EU procurement rules, but Gove did not mention this during his statement, insisting instead that exam regulator Ofqual had warned him off the reform.

«You could move to a single national exam board which would stop the «race to the bottom» but the change would be disruptive and threaten innovation and cost control,» the chairman explained.

Exam board OCR has condemned a proposal to create a single state - run awarding body, which is currently being considered by ministers as a «Corbyn-esque» approach that would lead to political interference.

So the board this year unveiled a new measure that it described as «the best single measure of equity and excellence in AP»: the percentage of the student body or of a graduating class that earns a passing score of 3 or higher on at least one AP exam.

But two investigations by exam board OCR also influenced the Department for Education's decision after it upheld two accusations of exam malpractice in a single subject.

The first statement recognizes a single national standard in pharmacy technician certification: the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE) offered by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB).