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Tag Archives: Examination board
Marking the markers
I can still remember the August day in 1988 when I opened my ‘A’ level results envelope to see a welcome number of A grades and one C. For the next few days my world stopped. An injustice had been … Continue reading
The examination crisis that was bound to happen
There is a grim inevitability to the current exams crisis. The Exam Boards will be scapegoated, but the root causes of the problem lie not with them or OfQual, but with a politically inspired reform agenda which has seen too … Continue reading
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