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Some reflections on 2022 and looking to 2023

A free TEFS calendar for 2023 can be downloaded from HERE. The biggest single event for the UK in 2022 was the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of a new Carolean…

Widening Participation OfS style

The Office for Students (OfS) ‘Consultation on a new approach to regulating equality of opportunity in English higher education’ closed at noon today. It marks an ‘upping the ante’ on universities that are already under severe pressure.  By putting the…

T-levels: tales of the unreliable in the twilight zone

News emerged last week that T-level examinations turned out to be ‘unreliable’ this summer. One assessment organisation, the Northern Council for Further Education (NCFE)  has been plagued by gremlins to such an extent that there had been rumblings and complaints…

Attainment gaps and questioning the purpose of examinations

Hidden in the background of extraordinary chaos across the government, the financial markets and fall of the Prime Minister, we learned that school examinations next year will be tightened further to bring the results in line with pre-pandemic levels.  This…