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139:(where the qualifications meet the regulator's requirements). The Wales-based WJEC offers qualifications in Wales (mostly under its WJEC brand), England (nearly always under its Eduqas brand) and Northern Ireland (under either brand). CCEA, despite previously offering qualifications in England and Wales, now only operates in Northern Ireland. Most exam boards offer a range of qualifications, though not all boards offer every qualification in every subject. 373:(CSE) was introduced. It was aimed at the 80% of 16-year-old students who did not take O Levels and, until then, had left school with no qualifications. CSEs were administered on a local basis, with local boards offering the qualifications. The local boards in England were new organisations, while in Wales and Northern Ireland (where universities did not control the existing boards) the existing boards were used. The CSE boards were: 164:, it was natural that they created the first exam boards. Indeed, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge each had their own exam board and a joint board they ran together. The qualifications offered were generally of the boards' own creation. Schools and colleges (with some exceptions, detailed below) were free to pick which board they wanted to use, though most went for a local board. 538:. In 1994, the Oxford Schools Examinations Board sold its GCSE functions to the Associated Examining Board (OSEB's A Level functions went to UCLES). NEAB, the AEB and the vocational City & Guilds formed the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) in 1997, with the AEB and NEAB formally merging into AQA in 2000 (City & Guilds chose to remain independent, but sold its 467:(GCSE) in 1986. As O Levels and CSEs had used different exam boards (except in Wales and Northern Ireland), new 'examining groups' were created. In England, the four examining groups were consortia of regional GCE and CSE exam boards, while in Wales and Northern Ireland they were the existing boards, making six boards in total: 142:
Schools and colleges have a completely free choice between the boards, depending on the qualification offered. Most schools use a mixture of boards for their GCSE qualifications, with a similar mixture existing at A Level. In addition, a school using one board for a particular GCSE subject is free to
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As CSEs were no longer offered, the CSE boards effectively ceased to operate as independent boards and instead became part of their larger examining groups (some were even taken over by larger members of their groups, such as the Southern Regional Examinations Board, which was acquired by the Oxford
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Though the exam boards have regional roots (see below), they now operate across larger areas. The three boards based in England – AQA, OCR and Edexcel – offer all their qualifications across England with a smaller number in Wales (where no 'homegrown' qualification is available) and Northern Ireland
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Until the mid-1990s, academic exam boards and vocational accreditors were run very much as separate organisations. In more recent times, this distinction has been removed, with all the term 'awarding bodies' now being used. This article focuses on the contemporary and historical awarding bodies that
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The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) took over the Southern Universities' Joint Board in 1990 and the Midland Examining Group (MEG) in 1993. When the Oxford Schools Examinations Board was abolished in 1995, its A Level functions were transferred to UCLES (its GCSE
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It was not long before the GCE (A Level) boards and GCSE examining groups began to formally merge or enter into even closer working relationships. This made sense, as it allowed merged boards to offer both GCSE and A Level qualifications and the boards were working together to offer the GCSE
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Cambridge Assessment also controls CIE, a predominately international exam board. CIE started offering some qualifications to English, Welsh and Northern Irish state schools in 2008, though it later withdrew from this market when the reformed GCSEs and A Levels (examined 2017 onwards) were
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The University of London School Examinations Board merged with the London and East Anglian Group to form the University of London Examinations & Assessment Council (known as London Examinations or ULEAC) in 1991. In 1996, London Examinations merged with the vocational
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In 1930, the University of London Extension Board renamed itself the University of London Matriculation and School Examinations Council before becoming University of London University Entrance and School Examinations Council and School Examinations Department in 1951.
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The Northern Ireland Schools Examination Council became the Northern Ireland School Examinations and Assessment Council before being replaced by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in 1994. It is a non-departmental public body.
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qualifications anyway. Many boards also took the opportunity to merge with vocational exam boards, as vocational qualifications became more common in schools. The government encouraged this, as they wanted to simplify the system by having fewer exam boards.
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England, Wales and Northern Ireland have several exam boards; schools and colleges can choose freely between them on a subject-by-subject basis. Currently, there are five exam boards available to state schools:
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Unlike the other boards, WJEC did not experience any major organisational changes and is still owned by the Welsh local authorities, though it operates independently. In 2014, WJEC launched a new brand,
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functions went to AEB/SEG). In the same year, UCLES also took over the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (OCSEB). UCLES then merged all its A Level boards together to form the
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The University of London University Entrance and School Examinations Council and School Examinations Department was renamed the University of London School Examinations Board in 1984.
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The UK's examination boards sometimes work together. For example, they sometimes offer qualifications jointly or share training materials for common parts of specifications.
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to form the Edexcel Foundation (the legal entity called London Qualifications). Though it originally ran as an educational charity like AQA, the Foundation was taken over by
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Though the boards were regional, schools were entirely free to pick which board they did their GCSE qualifications with and could mix and match between subjects.
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The Central Welsh Board differed from most exam boards, as it was not controlled by a university and only offered examinations to schools and colleges in Wales.
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The University of Durham Matriculation and School Examination Board renamed itself the Durham University Examinations Board in the 1930s.
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set academic exams in state schools. In everyday terminology, these organisations are still referred to as 'exam boards'.
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in 2003 (and renamed simply Edexcel), making it the only British exam board to be run by a profit-making company.
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In 1918, the first national qualifications for England, Wales and Northern Ireland were introduced: the
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To create a more egalitarian system, the O Levels and CSE (but not the A Level) were replaced by the
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Exam boards have been around as long as there have been qualifications offered by schools. As
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was founded in 1954 as a successor to the University of Bristol School Examinations Council.
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The University of Birmingham disbanded its own exam board and joined the JMB in 1916.
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in Wales had to use the Board, though other schools and colleges were free to choose.
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Day, John (2003). "The Associated Examining Board and the Southern Examining Group".
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Setting the Standard: A Century of Public Examining by AQA and Its Parent Boards
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In 1979, the neighbouring Metropolitan and Middlesex boards merged to form the
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All five members of the Northern Examining Association merged in 1992 to form
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Broadly speaking, the UK has always had two separate school systems: one for
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The Durham University Examinations Board ceased to exist in 1964.
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University of Durham Matriculation and School Examination Board
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use a different board for the equivalent subject at A Level.
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Southern Universities' Joint Board for School Examinations
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provision to AQA). AQA is run as an educational charity.
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Previously, academic qualifications were awarded by the
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Oxford and Cambridge Examinations and Assessment Council
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The existing exam boards offered the GCE, alongside the
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Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Examinations Board
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University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
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British examination boards and assessment providers
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Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Board
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West Yorkshire and Lindsey Regional Examining Board
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examination boards
secondary education
qualifications
GCSEs
Standard Grades
A Levels
Highers
vocational
United Kingdom
England
Wales
Northern Ireland
Scotland
AQA
CCEA
OCR
Pearson
Edexcel
WJEC
Eduqas
universities
degrees
Society of Arts
University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
University of Cambridge
University of Durham Matriculation and School Examination Board
University of Durham
Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board

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