Pearson has been involved in education for over one hundred years. We believe in different types of learning for different types of people, and we want our exams to help raise the standard of education that every single child receives. Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, a student or anyone who cares about the UK having the best educational standards in the world, we’re interested in what you have to say.
The debate over educational standards and the future of examinations is critically important to the success of our economy and country. It is also a debate central to Edexcel, one of the UK’s main examination bodies, and to Pearson, its parent company. It was to help inform this debate and signal our determination to play [...]
Not surprisingly, there was a wide range of opinions expressed on the questions we posed, as well as some challenges we had not identified in the consultation document. A number of themes recurred across the seminars. First, there was widespread agreement that the future of examinations was the wrong starting point for our discussion and [...]
How best to set world leading standards? In our consultation paper, we asked how to ensure our examinations help our education system meet the highest standards in the world and how we equip our young people for the challenges of the global economy. We suggested that Pearson could help meet this ambition by creating our [...]
As we have set out in the introduction, our consultations revealed a wide range of views on the issues we raised and the way forward. There were also concerns which we had not addressed explicitly in our initial report. These include a lack of confidence over comparability, wariness of competition between examination boards, worries over [...]
This process has been heartening because there is a clear appetite for improvement. The emphasis has been on incremental change rather than a radical overhaul of examinations. This cannot be used as an excuse for delay. We intend to play our role in bringing about change for the better. So in the light of the [...]
The discussions summarised above took place between the 23rd February and 8th March. These comprised 5 seminars convened and moderated by the independent think tank Reform. All sessions used our paper “Leading on Standards: a consultation on the future of examinations”, published on the 31st January 2012 as the stimulus for debate, and were independently chaired and transcribed …
As part of the Leading on Standards consultation and in partnership with the think tank Reform, Pearson hosted a seminar on Thursday 23rd February with teachers and head teachers from across the country to discuss the big questions surrounding our education and exams system.
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Pearson hosted a seminar on Thursday 23rd February with teachers and head teachers from across the country to discuss the big questions surrounding our education and exams system.
