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

It took 29 nations, over 300 delegates, and a multitude of interests to deliver the latest successful e-Assessment Association (eAA)...

Using a basket of assessment instruments as part of a Multi-Modal Assessment can deal with both the benefits and hazards of artificial intelligence.

Learners, families, and stakeholders are rejecting England’s school assessment system. A recent letter to a UK newspaper noted the...

Is Ofqual worth 2M? Could an expanded remit and higher quality threshold make it better value?

The key digital exam stories from the first half of 2025.

What happens when a sector leader 'Does a Ratner' and degrades his own company's qualifications?

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?

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

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...

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

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!...