What the digital exam sector can learn from the UK's move to 'wonderfuel' gas.

20 years ago, England's exam regulator set the agenda for school digital exams. A fresh campaign to build consensus is now needed.

A sell-out Next Generation Assessment conference in Manchester this week saw digital exam contributions from learners, student voice,...

The school digital exam vision seems to have stalled. Here are five problems with the vision, and five solutions on how to improve it.

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...

England’s school exam owners have presented their digital journey to 2030. Railway enthusiasts may scoff, but isn’t seven years too long...

Paper behind glass. It’s often what exam owner’s try when moving to digital exams. The same questions (usually multiple choice) with the...

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...

Each of us creates 1.7Mb of data every second of every day. With over a billion websites, that’s 5 billion gigabytes of data out there!...

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...

As trade press gossip intensifies on Ofqual’s potential new interim leader, England’s exam regulator has published a new report – looking...

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...

Reaching the age of 18 is a momentous birthday year, celebrated in western societies with the gift of porcelain. 2020 sees the 18th...

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...

Back in July, I was intrigued by the use of a chatbot for conducting university admission at Leeds Beckett University, wondering what...