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

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

Here are 15 myths of digital school exams dispelled.

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.

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

I visited the 2025 Next Generation Assessment Conference , only 10 months since the 2024 edition, I saw progress in digital school exams...

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

I read yesterday’s review report on curriculum and assessment, chaired by former Secretary of State for Education Charles Clarke,...

Why do angry educators try to shut down the school digital exam debate? Read how mis-trust, inarticulacy, and passivity prevents advocacy.

Moving to digital exams for schools needs macro messages, not transactional retail offers.

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.

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

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...