The story of digital exams and assessment is at risk of being hijacked. How so? Journalists conflating online exams with remote proctoring. Regulators saying ' written essays are the purest assessment '. Government advisors and policy folk absently forgetting digital exam trials and deployments over the last 20 years . Digital assessment and exams are at risk of becoming politically toxic.  Not because digital is bad, but because they’re often badly explained by the sector, w

When tradition fights innovation, credibility is the prize. Read how England's new V Levels should be designed digital-by-default, to create a playbook for wider digital exam deployment.

Keep calm and debunk the myths. Read how the digital exam and learner equity debates make many feel like Yesterday's Man. How should the sector bring everyone on the digital journey?

Do you have a license? With England's police officers potentially needing a license to work, read how licensure and license-to-practice is more common than we realise.

A major exam owner withdraws from remote invigilation/ proctoring. But what signal does this give to the global assessment community? Read about the actions each stakeholder must now take, and how the remote service could be re-introduced.

The digital exam news stories from H2 2025.

Brits expect fireworks on 5th November. But few from the digital exam and assessment sector expected pyrotechnics and revelations from the UK government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review, published today . Education journalist Warwick Mansell claims the review team is ‘ experienced and serious ’. I’m curious on their approach to the UK’s decades-long track record of digital exams and assessment. The sector must reflect: what problems are we solving? Today’s interview with

20 years ago on November 1 2005, the UK Citizenship Test was launched . An online one-hour high-stakes exam, delivered across 90 independent test centres. Life in the UK (LitUK) is one of many global tests that facilitates the citizenship and naturalisation processes. You read that correctly – the UK government with the digital exam sector have been delivering an online exam for 20 years. Not on paper. Or as a locally downloaded file to a server - a method perfected in the mi

The biggest UK assessment sector news story in 20 years. City & Guilds, synonymous with ‘the trades’ and vocational education,   has been sold . Just like Xerox, Hoover, and Sellotape – Guilds is a rare genericised brand that the general public instantly recognise.   Its acquirer is   PeopleCert . A privately owned company led by its founder and owner Byron Nicolaides. The sale proceeds will go to founding a separate charitable wing. The exact playbook used by   Pearson on ac