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What next for our framework for apprenticeship assessment

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What next for our framework for apprenticeship assessment

Our new Apprenticeship Assessment Regulatory Framework sets out the final conditions, requirements and guidance for reformed apprenticeship assessment. These reforms are designed to accommodate the Department for Work and Pensions’ new principles of flexibility in the way apprenticeships are assessed. This framework provides that flexibility while ensuring standards for assessment will be upheld.

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Some thoughts following the A level results last week

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 18 August 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

The media has made much of the ‘first overall drop in A level results for 30 years’. It seems quite a story, at first sight, but I feel I should...

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Waiting for results

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 6 August 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

A level results come out next week, with GCSEs the week after, and many thousands of young people and their families are waiting in nervous anticipation. In recent years, we...

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Creative subjects do have a place in education

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 11 June 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

It’s been a week since we released our consultation on the reform of remaining subjects at GCSE and A level. Commentary on social media and in the news suggests that...

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Practical Science

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 11 April 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Practical work and experimentation is at the heart of science. It matters to science students, their teachers and their future universities and employers. But A level students do not always...

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Setting standards

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 3 April 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Students will be sitting exams for new GCSEs in maths, English literature and English language for the first time in the summer of 2017. We want to be clear with...

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Making a mark…

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 18 February 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

We published our final report into exam marking last week. It’s a good piece of work, worth a read to get a full sense of what is going on. Perhaps...

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Happy New Year – and an outlook for 2014

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 9 January 2014 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Hello all and Happy New Year. I wish you all the best for 2014. Like many of you, we are facing another busy and challenging year. Qualifications reform will continue...

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Our A level consultation

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 28 October 2013 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Last week we launched our latest consultation on A level reform. It covers a number of important issues, including our proposals for the role of non-exam assessment in the subjects...

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Our announcement on speaking and listening assessments

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 4 September 2013 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

As we expected, our decision to stop speaking and listening assessments from counting towards final marks in GCSE English and English language has disappointed many teachers. We understand this. It...

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GCSE Results – a view from the Chief Regulator

Posted by: Dame Glenys Stacey, Posted on: 27 August 2013 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Looking back on last week, the story around GCSE results feels different this year. I hope people think that Ofqual and the exam boards did a good job setting out...

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