Blogs on 'Our people'

This is the latest in a series of blogs sharing stories about our assessment practitioner community. Kirsty Parkinson, Awarding Assessment Manager at The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply shares how she found a passion for assessment and a desire to take a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of it. Here she tells us how our postgraduate programme, the PGCA, equipped her to do just that.

This is the fifth in a series of blogs sharing stories about our assessment practitioner community. Tom Cherry is Head of Qualifications at the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) and has studied on three of Cambridge Assessment Network’s four A10 series of online courses. Here he talks to us about wanting to get assessment right for his industry, the learners, and the wider assessment community.

This is the fourth in a series of blogs sharing stories about our assessment practitioner community. Educational specialist Gemma Escott talks to Cambridge Assessment Network about how becoming an assessment specialist 'just kind of happened', having to piecemeal together her early professional development and how A101: Introducing the Principles of Assessment allowed her to reflect on her practice amongst other professionals.

Rosalia Valero, Strategic Development Head at Cambridge Assessment English in Mexico, began her career in teaching and training and now works with ministries and educational institutions to transform education in the Americas region. She spoke to us about her career path and why developing a greater understanding of assessment has helped her to ‘fall in love again’ with what she sells.

Hear from Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press' first joint staff network, The Young Employees Network, to find out more about the network and how we are supporting young employees. 

George Vlachonikolis has taught Economics for A Level and IB for 10 years. Currently he is studying on the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment (PGCA) and in this blog he details how the PGCA has built his confidence and expertise as an assessment practitioner and reflects on the things that have shaped his assessment identity.

Brooke Wyatt, Senior Manager of Assessment Training is the newest member of the Assessment Network team. Here she tells us about her experience working in assessment, what she loves about her work, and how as student, teacher and assessment manager, her perspective of assessment has many different angles.

Chair of Cambridge Assessment’s LGBTQIA+ staff network, David Wikramaratna, shares how we’re marking Pride this month and highlights some of the ways the network is helping to make the workplace a more inclusive and safer place to be for all our colleagues.

Celebrated annually on March 8, International Women's Day marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. We spoke to members of Cambridge Assessment's Women in Leadership staff network to discuss their plans to mark International Women's Day, the theme for this year and the importance of the staff network in challenging bias and inequality in the workplace.

Product Data Assistant, Hannah Goddard, shares a glimpse into a week in the life of a Level 3 apprentice in the Product Data team at Cambridge University Press.

As part of our National Apprenticeship Week celebrations, we caught up with Kerrie Galvin, Administrative Officer at OCR, who has recently completed a Team Leader Level 3 apprenticeship as part of her role at Cambridge Assessment.

To help us celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we caught up with Ashley Ringger to hear about her role as Apprenticeships Specialist at Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press.

We caught up with colleagues from our BAME staff network to hear about the wonderful things happening across the organisation to commemorate Black History Month.

Cambridge Assessment’s Women in Leadership staff network caught up with members of our senior leadership team to find out how their professional and personal lives have changed and adapted during these uncertain times.

To mark Pride Month, we caught up with members of our LGBT+ staff network to find out how they will be celebrating Pride and to highlight their important work as one of our committed networks promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, colleagues at Cambridge Assessment have been taking part in a variety of initiatives to support their local communities.

Harriet Dean, Co-Chair of our Women in Leadership staff network, reflects on the 'Communications Masterclass' that was given as part of The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge series of events.

Four staff from our Environment staff network share their mission to help improve sustainability and protect the environment, and explain how Cambridge Assessment supports them in doing that.

Five years ago Cambridge Assessment International Education launched their first ever graduate scheme, which saw four fresh-faced newly graduated individuals join the organisation on an 18-month training contract. We spoke with two of the graduate scheme success stories still working at Cambridge Assessment.

Helen Rees-Bidder explains why oral skills should be an important part of learning and development.

Health and Wellbeing Advisor Dianne Muir explores the value of workplace wellbeing and the wellbeing programme available to our staff.

One of the biggest advocates and driving forces behind our existing flexible working culture at Cambridge Assessment is our CEO, Saul Nassé. Here he shares his thoughts, experience and advice on becoming a successful organisation with a flexible working culture.

Our history subject advisor Asher Goodenough reflects on the human stories which embody the meaning of Black History Month for him.

In September colleagues from Cambridge Assessment and the Press travelled to Oman to participate in Innovation MENA - a conference attended by ministers of education and higher education in the Arabic speaking world. Hanan Khalifa tell us about the experience.

The Anglo-Mexican Foundation operates Cambridge Assessment English exams across Mexico and Guatemala. Annemarie Stolk and Rosemary Flatt visited to find out more.

Two inspirational employees, who have been instrumental in founding and progressing Cambridge Assessment's Women in Leadership group, discuss the importance of gender equality within the organisation.

Vicky Evans, Cambridge Assessment’s first Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, explains how the organisation can ensure access to education through volunteering, charity, and community work.

Cambridge International’s CEO Christine Özden tells us what she has learned about the global assessment organisation and where it is headed.

Jill Duffy became Chief Executive of OCR in November 2018. Here, she tells us about her path into education and the challenges she faces in her role.

Retiring chairs of staff networks Chloe Shaw and Will Saville discuss the positive impact that the groups have had on the Cambridge Assessment community.

Simon Child explains how the concept of trust, as explored by Dr Mary Richardson in a recent seminar, informs his work as Head of Assessment Training for the Cambridge Assessment Network.

As 2018 came to a close, Sian from our charity committee looked back on the great things achieved with last year’s charity of the year – SOS Children’s Villages

John Hibbert, OCR's Subject Advisor for Media and Film Studies, shares his lifelong passion for the subject and an obsession with a certain retro television series.

Simon Child of The Network reflects on his last few years at Cambridge Assessment and tells us what’s keeping him busy in his new role.

Uzma is Cambridge International’s Country Director for Pakistan, based in Islamabad. She tells us about balancing her career with family life, tackling self-doubt, and doing what feels right.

Sujata is the CEO of Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment (CBLA), the Melbourne-based organisation that develops and manages the Occupational English Test (OET).

Chloe Shaw and Sarah Rogerson from Cambridge Assessment English seek your support and ideas on collaborating to support refugees and asylum seekers with English.

We've been working with Malaysia so much that it's begun to feel like a home away from home for our Deputy Director of Partnerships, Projects and Policy, Hanan Khalifa.

William Saville, our Business Development Manager for the UK at Cambridge Assessment English, reflects on his first visit to the UCAS Annual Admissions Conference, held this year in Newport, Wales.

Tammy, who has recently joined the organisation, takes us on a personal tour of California, Paris, China, and Cambridge...

We were pleased to present the Cambridge Assessment-sponsored Student Officer of the Year award to PC Steve Girdlestone.

Tim Oates and Martin Johnson took to one of the largest skate parks in Europe to understand how young people learn from each other in this unique outdoor context.

We speak to Principal Project Manager Tony Collins about being the ‘Soft Landings Champion’ for the Triangle, ensuring the move to our new headquarters will be as smooth as possible.