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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
For psychology, candidates currently working towards their AS exams in May, and A2 exams in July there will still be a number of opportunities for re-sits.
AS re-sits will be available in January 2009 and then the following May 2009. No more re-sits of the current AS psychology exams will ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The draft 2009 psychology GCSE specifications from OCR and AQA have been published.
The drafts have to be submitted to the regulators in April 2008 and the specifications will be available from September 2008, with first teaching from September 2009.
Edexcel and WJEC have announced that they will offer GCSE psychology from ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Steve Taylor from onlineclassroom.tv has kindly provided psychnews.co.uk with an excellent DVD to give away as a prize.
Classic Studies in Psychology 1 is a best selling, smashing DVD, which consists of a five short video programmes designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their lessons. ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Philip Allan Updates have announced the dates and times for their workshops for the new A level specifications. They are offering workshops for teachers of the OCR, AQA (A), AQA (B), and Edexcel specifications.
Below are the latest workshops for teachers.
Preparing to teach the new OCR AS Psychology specification
London
16/05/2008
Preparing to ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has this month announced plans for changes to GCSE qualifications - including psychology GCSE.
Teaching of the new criteria will begin in 2009 (if you are teaching the course over two years) and the first awards will be given in 2011.
The awarding bodies will have ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Edexcel have announced that they are to offer psychology GCSE.
Currently AQA and OCR offer GCSE psychology, which is still a relatively small market. Last summer 3275 candidates sat AQA GCSE psychology and 3843 sat GCSE OCR psychology.
However, looking at the Edexcel web site it does seem that they have some ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
T.E.S. have discovered that Edexcel’s profits have risen seven-fold in three years and that one of Edexcel’s directors earned a whopping £450,000 in pay and pensions contributions last year - easily the highest known figure earned by anyone in British education.
In 2005 Edexcel became the first large examination board to ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The AQA (A) specification is still the clear leader in terms of number of students sitting the different specifications.
Last June (2007) 60.6% of students sitting A level psychology followed the AQA (A) specifications and 60.4% of students sitting AS psychology followed the AQA (A) route.
Below are figures taken from the ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Individual candidates who move to another centre or who, for other reasons, have to change their course of study part way through a GCE psychology course may be eligible to transfer credit between specifications. Transfer is not automatic - an application must be made to the receiving awarding body.
However, transfer ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This is certainly not new news for many teachers, but here are the urls for the new AS/A level specifications starting in September 2008.
AQA (A)
AQA (B)
OCR
Edexcel
WJEC
I know that many teachers are using the forthcoming changes to inform their decisions about which specifications they will be teaching in 2008. We would ...
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