Earlier this year we announced our plans to develop and pilot a national reference test. Some teachers, parents and students are understandably concerned about “yet another test”, but others are...
Comparing how out-of-tolerance awards (ones that are higher or lower than expected) from 2015 compare with previous years.
We are looking for experts with detailed knowledge and experience of education, subject and assessment to help us understand whether qualifications are assessing the right things at the right level. This work is vitally important to the current reform of qualifications.
Glenys Stacey responds to the TES article 'Experts fear 'race to the bottom' after Ofqual drops extra science GCSE checks'.
Today the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) is officially launched. The framework should help people understand all the qualifications we regulate, general and vocational in England, and vocational in Northern Ireland, and how they relate to each other.
With the reform of GCSEs, AS and A levels well underway, many will be wondering how accreditation of these qualifications works. Ofqual's Phil Beach explains the process.
...GCSEs or A levels prior to exam board specifications being accredited. Given the amount of change in GCSE science we decided that it would be appropriate to undertake some supplementary...
...courses for new linear A levels and this means the exam boards will have to change the way they set standards. We have agreed a principle with the exam boards:...
...Short and Full courses out, there is around a 45% fall in Short Course entries this year and about a 10% rise in Full Course entries. As I made clear...
...how we expect the size and level of demand of qualifications to be described, which we are calling the Regulated Qualifications Framework. The framework is part of our work to...