Monday 28 June 2010

The beginning of the end for soft exams

This is the start of the end for qualifications such as OCR National IT an Edexcel DiDA
TES June 25th in a piece about academies.


Nick Gibb - Schools Minister
"It is very important that young people are entered for the qualifications that are in their best interests rather than being entered for exams simply to boost the league table position of the school." "We are going to radically reform league tables so parents have completely transparent information about exam performance".

Ofsted talking about vocational ICT qualifications
"doubtful value".

Functional Skills is the opposite, a hard to pass rigorous qualification that worthwhile for students but not for league tables!





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