The English Examining Boards: Their route from independence to government outsourcing agencies



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qualification, submitting each stage of their proposals to the NCVQ, who “laid down
preconditions for approvaΓ
(Wolf 2002a: 218).

Despite the success of GNVQ courses in attracting students in school 6th forms and
and both 6th-form and FE colleges, widespread criticisms of the assessment process
were a major factor leading to the Government’s request that Sir Ron Dearing
investigate and report on post-16 qualifications. It was not surprising that one of his
1996 Report’s recommendations was that the academic and vocational regulatory
bodies - SCAA and NCVQ - should unite. Dearing’s place on the vocational body’s
Council had enabled the development of an
“interesting dynamic'" with John Capey,



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