Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, said the SQA had committed to introduce a "robust" system in time for next year's exam season, to monitor exact pay rates for each invigilator, some of whom are now being recruited.
It was rather shocking to see the panellists (a former Cabinet minister, an eminent lawyer, a TV personality, and a press commentator) all nod in nonchalant agreement at the proposition, and I immediately abandoned the role of impartial invigilator to take issue with them.
Sagir and Ozturk (2010) formulated the assignment of invigilators to exams as a multi-objective model and calculated the weights of objectives using the analytic network process.
Speaking as a former invigilator, the experience of being literally 'on the ground' with any given exhibit for an extended period of time also sees you develop a unique relationship with an artwork.
He was a member of Mensa and, in his 80s, pursued an advanced mathematics course with the Open University, for whom he had worked as an invigilator for many years.
I kept studying the faces of the invigilators for some sign, but they were giving nothing away.
As certain branches of contemporary art become ever more based around the creation of installations, situations and ephemeral experiences, the function of the invigilator has increased and expanded.
It's not quite the most ridiculous attempt to bump up one's marks in front of an invigilator's eyes, however.
Among the six boards, we only received a training pack from Informant A which clearly illustrated the nature of the invigilator training.
In our investigation, most of the environmental MDR-Ab were isolated from the healthcare-associated environmental surfaces including the bed sheets, bedrails, dispensing table, nurses' desk, and outer surface of the invigilator.
