Episodes
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 ...
How To Keep Your Exams Officer
How do you keep your exams officer? One of the most enlightening and entertaining things about running The Exam Man over the last year has been hearing all about how people have fallen into running exams, and what they were doing before. We've heard from a former Met police officer on the podcast, a...
EXAMS IN THE NEWS: Extra time, exams and SEND
This week, we are- rather predictably for The Exam Man- digging into exams- but this week, with a particular focus on assessment for students with SEND. John and Sophie dig into why access arrangements and extra time have recently made the headlines. With insights from Vicki Clayson, a former SENCO ...
Sir Nick Gibb
Nick Gibb joins John Gaston and Sophie Gaston for a far-reaching chat, spanning the freedoms that come after 27 years in the House of Commons, his career highlights, the reasons he wanted to work in education, how many schools he personally visited whilst in office, and how he thinks AI may impact e...