OCR’s impressive squad of sports qualifications 09/03/2016 Over the last 18 months, OCR has teamed up with leading UK sports organisations to develop a range of new sport qualifications designed to help all learners to progress towards further study or work in a wide range of sports related fields.
"You’re hired" - congratulations to the Advanced National Apprentice of the Year 28/01/2016 IBM apprentice, Joshua White, beat off tough competition to be awarded the ‘Advanced’ National Apprentice of the Year at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 26 January.
OCR’s 2016 Level 3 Cambridge Technicals confirmed for Performance Tables 2018 25/01/2016 To help with your planning, we’re delighted to confirm that the majority of OCR’s 2016 Level 3 Cambridge Technicals vocational suite have been included on the 16-19 Key Stage 5 Performance Tables for 2018 in England.
#PositiveAboutPractical and cat genetics – OCR Science at ASE 2016 11/01/2016 OCR’s Science team welcomed hundreds of teachers to their stand at this year’s Association for Science Education (ASE) conference in Birmingham.
Seasonal tweets and looking ahead to 2016 21/12/2015 As we near the end of 2015, we've been celebrating the past year in tweets and are looking ahead to ASE and BETT in January 2016.
Performance points for Cambridge Nationals confirmed 18/12/2015 OCR’s popular Level 1/2 Cambridge Nationals taught from 2016 will be included on the Department for Education’s Performance Tables for 2018 in the Technical Award category.
Carpe diem and study Latin, the cool new subject 17/12/2015 Today, the Roman festival of Saturnalia, OCR unveils its new Latin GCSE which has been accredited for teaching from September 2016.
Ofqual reports on 2015 EARs and Malpractice 10/12/2015 Figures released by Ofqual in its annual statistical report on Enquiries About Results (EARs) show that despite an increase in the number of EARs received by exam boards in 2015, they were resolved at a faster rate.