Archive for the ‘tes’ Category

Increased profits for Edexcel

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 ...

OCR Marking – again

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

  Last month Warwick Mansell, a journalist working for TES, discovered that examiners who were remarking OCR psychology papers were told not to change students' A-level marks after school or college appeals unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so. This is of course particularly cruel for those students who had their ...

OCR Marking

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The following article was posted on TES in September, although I have only just spotted it. I was aware that the journalist Warwick Mansell was researching the article but missed it when it was published. The main concern is regarding the inconsistent marking of the core studies 2 (2541) paper for ...