John and Sophie usher in the summer hiatus from exams with a catch up with some of the exams officers who we featured at the start of Series 1. Series 2 of weekly episodes will launch with a bang in early September, and we have a great line-up of guests and topics ahead, exploring all aspects of exams and assessment. In the meantime, watch out for a one-off long-form episode in August around GCSE results day, so that you can get your exam fix during the holidays! To make sure that you get notified of this special episode and all the upcoming episodes in Season 2, do follow and subscribe to The Exam Man on any of the major podcast platforms.

Thanks for all of the incredible support over the last few months- it has blown us away. Do let us know if there's a topic you'd like us to cover in Season 2, or if you'd like to get involved!

A huge well done to all the exams teams in our 1500 Examscreen schools who have helped hundreds of thousands of students through some of the most significant months of their lives. Have a fantastic summer and do keep in touch: Examscreen and john.gaston@examscreen.co.uk.

Until then, we're off to Taipei......

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This week Sophie and John spend a lively half hour chatting to Simon Cherriman, a Director at Tutors & Exams, the organisation that supports learners outside of schools to access assessment at their leading, independent exam centres in the UK and South Africa. Hear about Simon's late career change into the world of exams, his love and appreciation for invigilators, and how his role has wildly improved his knowledge of the geography of the north of England.

A private candidate is a candidate who is entered for exams at a centre but is not enrolled there. Home learners, self taught candidates, excluded learners and alternative provision exam candidates have the opportunity to choose where they sit GCSE and A level exams,

More information about Tutors and Exams can be found here: Private Candidate Exam Centre - AQA - EDEXCEL - OCR - Cambridge (tutorsandexams.uk)

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What are 'access arrangements'? The Exam Man team take you on a whistle-stop tour of this complex but important part of the exam system, in the first of a series of episodes where they delve into exams across different specialist settings.

In this conversation, John and Sophie chat to Headteacher Ruth McWeeney. Ruth leads Social Arts for Education, a small and innovative independent special school for up to 25 children aged 11- 19. The school is located in Eltham in the London borough of Greenwich, which happens to be around the corner from the house John grew up in. This was particularly helpful as John and Sophie could hurl their children at their grandparents for an evening during half term and escape to SAFE School, where they met with Ruth, saw Examscreen in action, and chatted all things exams. Following a recent flood, Ruth explains what it's like to run a school- and a full and ambitious suite of exams and access arrangements- when you only have one functioning classroom!

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JCQ Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments document: AA_regs_Revision_One_Sep23_FINAL.pdf (jcq.org.uk)

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