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...

Removal of English and Maths from England's apprenticeships is problematic, especially for post-apprenticeship job seekers.

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?

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

The how and why of school digital exam delivery.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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!...