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WISERD GCSE Series – Part 3: Is tiering fair for all students?

WISERD GCSE Series – Part 3: Is tiering fair for all students?

Posted on 25 August 2017 by WISERD

©University of the Fraser Valley via Flickr (CC BY 3.0) Having previously looked at the different types of GCSE courses and how they are assessed, in the third and final […]

WISERD GCSE Series – Part 2: Should internal assessment be used for GCSEs?

WISERD GCSE Series – Part 2: Should internal assessment be used for GCSEs?

Posted on 24 August 2017 by WISERD

Image credit: Komsomolec, via Pixabay, CC0 Creative Commons Earlier this week we looked at the recent reforms to GCSEs across England, Northern Ireland and Wales and considered students’ views on […]

WISERD GCSE Series – Part 1: Should all GCSE students be assessed in the same way?

WISERD GCSE Series – Part 1: Should all GCSE students be assessed in the same way?

Posted on 22 August 2017 by WISERD

In the first of a series of blogs about students’ perspectives on the fairness of GCSEs, Dr Rhian Barrance outlines the recent reforms to GCSEs across England, Northern Ireland and […]

The Future of Welsh Education – An Inspectorate Perspective

Posted on 15 July 2015 by Natalie Ross

At the WISERD conference I talked about what people expect from an inspectorate of education and training in Wales and I outlined the methods that inspectors use to come to […]

Hopes and Dreams

Posted on 30 January 2014 by Jill Wilmott-Doran

By Kimberley Horton. Welsh pupils should leave school as young adults prepared for living and working in Wales, or in other parts of the world. The WISERD Education project has […]