Archive for the ‘GCSE’ Category
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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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
OCR has introduced a website devoted to the new changes to GCSEs. The site www.GCSEchanges.co.uk has information and updates relating to the new GCSEs for first teaching in September 2009.
The draft specifications for GCSE psychology will be available next month and you can register on the site for updates. The ...
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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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