Sentence examples for qualification design from inspiring English sources

He said this, combined with a qualification design that gave teachers control over 60% of marks, had been at the root of the disappointment caused when thousands of pupils last summer received D grades in GCSE English after exam boards moved a grade boundary to toughen up the exam.

The DOE laboratories, led by the INL, perform research and development (R&D) that will be critical to the success of the NGNP, primarily in the areas of: high temperature gas reactor fuels behaviour, high temperature materials qualification, design methods development and validation, hydrogen production technologies energy conversion.

Were they incapable of attaining a qualification, or was the qualification designed in such a way that most students failed?

There are challenges associated with a single qualification designed to recognise the achievement of all students - the current tiered system seeks to do that.

Also, have we really forgotten so quickly the national vocational qualifications designed by employers that nobody ever took?

FE professionals generally favour the principle of a new, more flexible range of qualifications designed to give employers and individuals what they want.

Ministers have had qualifications designed – at a cost of millions of pounds – to create work-ready teenagers, only to drop the courses years later because of limited take-up.

Vocational education policies are also vague: Labour wants to rebrand outstanding FE colleges as "Institutes of Technical Excellence" and the Conservatives are pushing the "TecBacc" – a series of qualifications designed with employers.

The statistics showed an even steeper 18% fall in the numbers studying part-time for foundation degrees, which are qualifications designed to combine academic study with workplace learning, usually in partnership with employers.

The NQS has set a nationally agreed standard for staff qualifications designed to improve ECEC services.

Mr Gove told MPs: "Last September we outlined plans for changes to GCSE qualifications designed to address the grade inflation, dumbing down and loss of rigour in those examinations.