Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Perhaps the examination boards inadequacy, is yet another result of the pathetic privatisation drive of short sighted governments who care only for money and adjusted figures only to make themselves look shiny.
If the examiners feel justice is not being done, then their withdrawal from the marking scheme would absolve them of blame and direct attention to the examining board company as to exactly why there appear to be few examiners these days. Why, what is the point as an examiner putting in your time and effort to do the best by a student when you understand the controlling company is not doing it's best by those concerned. Surely the examiners knowing this would vote with their feet, as how can they be a party to this, if they believe whole heartedly in what they are doing as educators. Or, is it with them the same as it is with the examining board, a subject of money. If it is a subject of money, the reason why examiners are not having the courage of their convictions, then surely they are no better than those who control them and pay them. They are complicit in the shambles and the erosion of hard working students futures.
To remember, one ill marked exam can be the difference between a person going onto higher education as befits their intelligence and their future service to industry and a person taking a lesser path perhaps even to the dole queue by the dissapointment and there depression created.
What a responsibility.
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