Episodes
MADE FOR WALES: Over the border with WJEC
This week The Exam Man (sort of) heads to Sophie's homeland for a thoughtful, wide-ranging chat with the fountain of assessment knowledge that is Sarah Ferguson. Sarah is Director of Assessment at WJEC and Eduqas.John and Sarah confess their mutual obsession with the subject matter in hand, we d...
EXAM UTOPIA
To usher in the autumn term, we sat down with Idris Fabiyi, an education technology leader whose career has spanned secondary schools and further education. As Head of Innovation & Technology across BPP, Idris brings deep experience in digital learning, similation-based assessment, and emerging tech...
LINSEY ARMSTRONG-SMITH: Exams at Shiplake College
In this special pre - exam season episode, we chew the fat about all things exams with super experienced Exams Officer Linsey Armstrong-Smith. Linsey shares how she found her way into her current role at Shiplake College in Oxfordshire, what she thinks are the skills and mindset needed to thrive in ...
JCQ with baubles on
Welcome to a special Christmas episode of The Exam Man, in collaboration with JCQ, In this festive episode, John and Sophie are joined by none other than Margaret Farragher, Chief Executive Officer of JCQ. Margaret is an experienced and respected leader across the public, private and voluntary secto...
RESULTS SPECIAL: "Contingency mindset", adrenaline junkies & introducing My Big Year
To usher in GCSE results week, John and Sophie spent a delightful half hour chatting to Jennifer Halpin, Exams Team Leader at David Ross Education Trust, for a special summer episode of The Exam Man. In her role, Jen supports exams officers across the 11 secondaries at DRET, a team which includes on...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Ofqual in the house
SPECIAL EPISODE of The Exam Man is here! Such a pleasure to speak to Amanda Swann , Executive Director at Ofqual , about the imminent summer exam series and the role of Ofqual - with information aplenty, helpful tips, timely reminders, and uplifting messages of appreciation for those in charge of ru...
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! What we've learned about podcasting
Celebrating One Whole Entire Year of The Exam Man! How to create a podcast... and what we've learned. The Exam Man podcast- despite originally being planned as a scrappy six- week event for the summer exam season- somehow reaches its first anniversary this week! Over the past year, thousands of coll...
Could Schools Handle An Exams Overhaul?
This week on The Exam Man podcast we swing from talking about South Korea's all-in attitude to exams to transforming the exam system- should we? Could we, even if we wanted to? Lisa Greenslade joins us to talk about her experience of transforming at scale in higher education exams. To subscribe to E...
Exams and Employability
Exams and employability- do exams prepare young people for the many decades following school?This week we are joined by Oli de Botton, the CEO of The Careers & Enterprise Company – the national body for careers education- to talk everything exams and employability. We had a great chat all about the ...