How gatekeepers need to tune in to the reality of how the assessment system doesn't work for learners.

A curious year for the assessment sector. $25M fines for exam cheating. UK spluttering on plans for digitising school exams. A regulator...

What is the UK exam sector worth?

The long-running UK exhibition BETT is a nexus for global ed-tech folk. There are plenty of visitors and booth workers, usually away from...

Are digital exams given a free (green) pass? Environmental evidence is still sparse, but lower power, sustainable computers may be an answer

England’s school exam owners are preparing to offer GCSE digital exams and their paper equivalent in parallel. But is that fair? Is one...

The tide is turning on casual exam invigilators. Career folk invigilating every day versus apathetic people wishing they were elsewhere....

The main four England and Wales General Qualifications exam owners have set out their digital school exam stall. It's shook many digital...

Moving a 1.5M paper test to on-screen delivery

2023 was a seismic year in assessment. Many learners returned to an exam hall for the first time in a number of years. Three UK exam...

Last week's Federation of Awarding Bodies conference was an eye-opener. But not for the reasons you may think. What’s the...

Everyday, global exam sector stories ping my news trackers - white-hot opportunities to grapple assessment issues. But too often, those...

This week, a well-known publication ran an exam tech story, about insecure software being used. You might know that Adobe doesn't support...

How English language digital exams impact learners

I'm absolutely delighted at the strides the Further Education (FE) sector has made with e-Assessment since my 2007 FE News article. No...

Seldom a day passes without calls to reduce summative exams, replacing them with the measurement of soft ‘21st Century’ skills. But how...

The UK university sector is witnessing seismic changes. The undergraduate application sector-governed body called UCAS will shortly...

Confidence is key to exam programmes. Management of risk and protecting the public from unlicensed or imperfectly trained learners is...

The BBC Panorama investigative story on UK television this evening, regarding the compromise of the TOEIC exam is the story of the...

This research report from 2014 is now publicly available via the three UK regulators, SQA, CCEA and Welsh Government. It looks at the...