The Ofqual Podcast

Laura McInerney interviews Dr Jo Saxton, Chief Regulator of Ofqual, and Cath Jadhav, Executive Director of Standards, Research and Analysis at Ofqual, about the reliability of exam marking in England and why our exam system is widely regarded as among the best in the world.

Laura McInerney interviews Dr Jo Saxton, Chief Regulator of Ofqual, and Cath Jadhav, Executive Director of Standards, Research and Analysis at Ofqual, about how grading will work for 2022 GCSE and A level exams in England.

Adam Cherrington and Julie Yarrow give some information on what Ofqual is changing with regard to assessment judgements made by centres and direct claims status (DCS).

Make sure you tell us your views. Our consultation is open until 14 November 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/awarding-organisation-controls-for-centre-assessments-regulations

Functional Skills in ICT in England are being replaced with a new Digital Functional Skills Qualification. We're currently consulting on our regulations for this new qualification. This podcast explains more about the differences between old and new, as well as other proposals we're making, such as supporting more innovative, valid assessment of digital skills.

The consultation is open until 26 July 2019 at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/regulating-digital-functional-skills-qualifications

Functional Skills Qualifications (FSQs) in English and maths are being reformed. Here we explain what’s changing and why. You can also find up-to-date information on the progress reformed qualifications have made through our technical evaluation process.

For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/functional-skills-qualifications

14 December 2018

Ofqual is currently consulting on how it plans to regulate qualifications that provide people with the core skills and knowledge to allow them to confidently progress in today's digital workplace. Listen to this episode and respond to our consultation by 13 January 2019.

Paul Newton, Research Chair at Ofqual, joins Chris Shadforth to talk about validity of assessment, and how it is used by Ofqual, and others, to make sure that assessments measure the right things in the right way.