Coursework cheats cont......

Hot off the presses comes the latest edict from the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson. It seems that I am not the only one concerned about possible abuses of the coursework content in GCSE's : -

from The Beeb

Coursework for GCSE mathematics is to be axed, the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced.
All other GCSE coursework will have to be supervised, Mr Johnson told delegates at the Labour party conference on Wednesday.
He said qualifications could not be undermined by the few who cheated by taking their work from the internet.
Parents needed to be reassured that coursework assessed pupils' work in a "fair and robust way".
There has long been a problem over the use of coursework in GCSEs, with concerns about whether work done outside of school is always entirely the student's own efforts

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"As a result of the QCA's report, we will be removing all GCSE coursework from maths and stipulating that in other subjects, coursework must be supervised in classroom style conditions.
"Coursework can be very beneficial and I am determined that the hard work of the vast majority of students should not be undermined by questions of validity.
"We will work closely with teachers to develop even more effective and reliable coursework assessments."

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