Agenda and minutes

1.1 The Chair welcomed everybody to the meeting.

WJEC

Gareth Pierce, Chief Executive

Jo Richards, Head of Research

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. 

Ofqual

Glenys Stacey, Chief Regulator,

Cath Jadhav, Acting Director of Standards and Research

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.

4.1 The Committee agreed the motion.

5.1 Subject to a few minor amendments the Committee agreed the report.

6.1 The Chair agreed to write to the Minister for Education and Skills on Emergency Life Saving skills.

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