Meetings
GCSE English Language grades Summer 2012
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
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Meeting: 08/11/2012 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
2 GCSE English Language grades Summer 2012
Leighton Andrews, Minister for Education and Skills
Chris Tweedale, Director – Schools and Young People Group
Cassy Taylor, Head of General Qualifications Regulation
Supporting documents:
- CYP(4)-30-12 Paper 1 - Welsh Government - GCSE regrading, item 2
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Minutes:
2.1 The Chair welcomed the Minister and his officials to the meeting. Members questioned the witnesses.
Meeting: 24/10/2012 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
3 GCSE English Language grades Summer 2012
Ofqual
Glenys Stacey, Chief Regulator,
Cath Jadhav, Acting Director of Standards and Research
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
3.1 The Chair welcomed Glenys Stacey and Cath Jadhav to the meeting. Members questioned the witnesses.
Action Point:
Glenys Stacey agreed to provide the overall percentage figure of the market for the new suite of English GCSEs that each of the awarding bodies (WJEC, AQA, Edexcel, OCR and CCEA) represent.
Meeting: 24/10/2012 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
2 GCSE English Language grades Summer 2012
WJEC
Gareth Pierce, Chief Executive
Jo Richards, Head of Research
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
2.1 The Chair welcomed Gareth Pierce and Jo Richards to the meeting. Members questioned the witnesses.
Action Points:
· Gareth Pierce said that the WJEC have been doing some work to look, retrospectively, at the affect that the Key Stage 2 methodology would have on the outcomes of GCSEs other than English where the majority of candidates were in England. The work has yet to be verified, but he agreed to share that with the Committee in due course.
· Gareth Pierce agreed to confirm if the Wales regulator was in attendance at the Standards and Technical Issues Group (STIG) meeting on 14 March 2012.