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Dec 6, 20246 min read

2024 Exam Sector Review

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

Jan 27, 20243 min read

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

Jan 17, 20242 min read

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

Jan 16, 20243 min read

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

Jan 12, 20243 min read

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

Jan 16, 20211 min read

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

Nov 16, 20185 min read

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

Apr 12, 20182 min read

The Wow Factor Technology captures our imaginations to solve problems we never knew we had. In readiness for the 16th eAssessment...

Feb 1, 20123 min read

The Learning Technologies show, now in its 12th year at Olympia, is once again a top-tier event with promises of thought-provoking...