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JCQ with baubles on

Highlights from a special festive episode of The Exam Man podcast released in December 2025. Just before Christmas 2025 we spoke to Margaret...

"Contingency mindset" and adrenaline junkies

Highlights from a special episode of The Exam Man podcast released in August 2025, to coincide with GCSE results week For this episode, rele...

Could schools handle an exams overhaul?

Highlights from Season 3, Episode 6 of The Exam Man podcast For this episode we had a good chat with Lisa Greenslade, who is the University ...

SPECIAL EPISODE: Ofqual in the house

Highlights from a special episode of The Exam Man podcast released on Thursday 1st May 2025 In this special episode recorded just before the...

Exams and Employability

Highlights from Season 3, Episode 5 of The Exam Man podcast This week we welcomed Oli de Botton, the CEO of The Careers & Enterprise Com...

Exams in the news: Extra time, exams and SEND Part 2

Highlights from The Exam Man podcast, Series 3 Episode 3 Part 2: Tracking and assessment for pupils with SEND In this part we continue the t...

Exams in the news: Extra time, exams and SEND Part 1

Highlights from The Exam Man podcast, Series 3 Episode 3 Part 1: Extra time In the first part of this episode we talk about access arrangeme...

FROM THE SECURE ROOM: John’s 10 steps to Exam Season Success for exams teams

Step 1: create an exam season. This is something you do within your management information system. I use SIMS, but there are other managemen...

Sir Nick Gibb

Highlights from The Exam Man podcast, Series 3 Episode 2 In this episode we were joined by Sir Nick Gibb to chat about his views on assessme...