Archive for the ‘tes’ Category
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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