Head of ofqual simon Lebus exams

Head of ofqual simon Lebus

IT is a very busy time for the exam boards and ofqual. While we caught the new head of Ofqual on radio 4. Simon Lebus. The next leader of Ofqual from Sally Collier.

To his fairness, he has only just arrived in the job and was due to run exams in the summer. Instead he is now responsible to fairness throughout the GCSE and A level exams in 2021 led by teachers. Rather than managing the deployment of mass exams in the summer of 2021 with the exam boards. UPDATE: 16 / 01 / 2021 Simon Le bus on the today program. Although we regularly bang on about having computer based exams as the alternative. Rather than relying on teacher and centre assessed grades in the days of pandemic. We should look at the higher picture.

We must look at the whole of this disruption as the both the opportunity to really look at what is the point of exams. While also tearing up the whole exam settlement that secondary school pupils usually sit. Which is GCSEs and A levels. We need to grab this opportunity to start to dismantle the exam boards that set exams. Giving schools and universities their own remit to set exams as they see fit. While having computer based exams running skills based exams especially at the early stages of attainment. Including foundation level.

We hope Simon is reading this.

Here is his interview below (My apology poor sound quality at the beginning )