Sentences with phrase «told exam regulators»

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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.»

Simon Clarkson, a Leicestershire based science teacher, told the conference that Ofqual, the exam regulator, is right in its intentions to stop practical lessons counting towards GCSE and A Level grades.

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.

Mr Gove told the BBC that exam boards, in conversation with England's exams regulator Ofqual, were ensuring that new style exams, sat for the first time this year, were comparable with those in previous years.

In an attempt to address concerns of «dumbing down» and ensure results were comparable, England's exams regulator, Ofqual, told exam boards they would have to justify any results notably different to those of previous years.

Mr Gove told the BBC that English exam regulator Ofqual was worried that there would be exams called GCSEs in Wales which would be structured differently from GCSEs in England.

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.