Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
5:35 pm
David Laws (Yeovil, Liberal Democrat)
Are you concerned that the Government’s response to the Select Committee’s report stated that Ofqual’s role—we clearly see this in the legislation—is
“not to monitor education standards as a whole; it is to regulate the qualifications and assessments which are one of the means by which those standards are measured.”
There is obviously a concern in the public’s mind, not necessarily that there has been a deliberate attempt to undermine and cheat on standards, but that, over time, arguably because of teaching to the test, the way qualifications have changed, more or less coursework, or modular GCSEs, exam results do not necessarily reflect the change in educational levels among the population.