exam spending

Astonishing figures these. Schools spend £281m on exam fees , that's a 7% rise in one year and an 82% rise in 6 years.

AQA is the biggest recipient in schools with 42% market share followed by OCR 26% and edexcel 25%.

Take into account all income from all sectors and edexcel earn £205m from exams, AQA earn £144m and OCR £121m - so the big three have revenues approaching half a billion pounds and that's before you get into all the specialist awarding bodies.