Scandal in British exam boards
The British exam boards are mired in scandal. AQA, Edexcel and WJEC have been caught in the headlights giving exam papers away to teachers in 'training days' for a £120 fee. It means effectively that many students will be disadvantaged if their teachers have not paid to go to one of these training days. This means that many state school students will get relatively worse results than private school students whose teachers attended the training day.
This may seem awful, but their is worse. The exam officer for edexcel was recorded by a reporter:
Ms Warren, the chief examiner for Edexcel GCSE Geography, said that teachers should pick her company’s exam because “you don’t have to teach a lot”.
Ms Warren also expressed her disbelief that the geography exam had been cleared by the official regulator.
She said: “There’s so little [in the exam] we don’t know how we got it through [the exam regulator]”. She claimed it was “a lot smaller [than other boards] and that’s why a lot of people came to us.”
In the next few days, there might be many sacking. Possible the entire January exam sitting will have to be abandoned and the June exams re-written.
CIE/OCR are not recorded as being involved, but this scandal will run and run.
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