Exams chief admits reforms needed
December 16, 2011 – 4:08 pm
The head of the company that owns Edexcel, one of England’s biggest exam boards, said today it is to overhaul its procedures by filming and publishing its seminars.
It follows a probe into exams boards that found teachers were apparently tipped off about how to secure top grades for students
It came as one of three examiners suspended following the Daily Telegraph investigation denied that they had cheated but expressed regret over some of her comments and said: “I am only human.”
Steph Warren, of Edexcel, was recorded telling a reporter posing as a teacher that “you don’t have to teach a lot” and that there was a “lot less” for pupils to learn than with rival courses.
But she told the Commons Education Committee: “We have not cheated. We have not told them anything at all. We are not teaching the exam to teachers. We are explaining the specification.”
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