“A high court judge has ordered an urgent hearing of a legal challenge over the summer’s GCSE English controversy mounted by an alliance of pupils, schools and councils.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A group of head teachers and councils has launched legal action against the exam regulator Ofqual and two exam boards over June’s English GCSE exam.”
BBC News, 26th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The GCSE English fiasco that meant thousands of teenagers missed out on C grades this year faces a high court challenge, it was announced on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A group of around 150 schools, councils and education bodies have written to Ofqual, the qualifications watchdog, announcing their intention to seek a judicial review of the decision.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the GCSE grading scandal will fail to bring the controversy to a close, head teachers leaders’ have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Alex Aldridge offers some tips for law students sitting their oral and written exams.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has thrown out a disability discrimination claim brought against the College of Law (CoL) over its examination provision.”
The Lawyer, 3rd February 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The qualifications regulator is to launch an official investigation into exam seminars staged to help teachers improve GCSE and A-level results amid concerns the system is open to abuse.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Exam watchdog Ofqual has ordered the re-writing of an exam paper and threatens further action as it investigates reports that exam boards are giving unfair advice to teachers.”
BBC News, 21st December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Education secretary Michael Gove has ordered an inquiry into a claim that examiners are giving teachers advice on what questions their pupils should expect in GCSE and A-level papers.”
The Guardian, 7th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Learning about the law while at school cannot be a bad thing, surely? At a time when legal aid cuts are set to turn many people into litigants in person, one would think the public needs all the legal literacy it can get. And while experts insist it is vital as part of young people’s citizenship education, doing GCSE or A-level law may not be the best way to achieve this, especially if you want to pursue a legal career.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Rape already arouses serious anxiety because so few attacks are reported to the police, conviction rates are low, and victims are subject to intrusive questioning in court. But now concerns are growing that rapists are escaping justice because doctors are failing to properly examine victims or record their injuries, depriving police of crucial forensic evidence. In other words, senior doctors fear that some forensic medical examiners (FMEs) are simply not up to the job.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Students have the right to access information detailing what assessors thought of their exam answers under UK data protection laws, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Exam boards face being stripped of their role over blunders that affected GCSEs and A-levels sat by thousands of schoolchildren, it emerged today.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Toki v Ipourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton (Case C-424/09); [2011] WLR (D) 128
“The mechanisms for the recognition of higher education diplomas pursuant to article 3(b) of Council Directive 89/48/EEC, as amended, were applicable where the profession at issue was a regulated professional activity within the meaning of the second sub-paragraph of article 1(d) of the Directive in the member state of origin, irrespective of whether the person concerned was or was not a full member of the professional association or organisation concerned. In order for professional experience to be taken into account for the purposes of recognition under article 3(b) certain specific conditions had to be satisfied.”
WLR Daily, 5th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“An Oxford graduate who sued a law college after failing her exams has lost a bid for damages and was told her own lack of aptitude was to blame.”
BBC News, 18th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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