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Spring issue of Achieve - Cambridge Assessment's regular update which gives you a snapshot of the work the Group has carried out worldwide during the last few months - is now available!

Exams should not define the curriculum
“An excessive focus on exams and examining has been at the expense of coherence and curriculum,” says head of international exams group. Speaking at Cambridge Assessment’s debate on ‘Learning comes first: shifting the focus from examining to the curriculum’ on 31 January, Group Chief Executive, Simon Lebus, continued: “We should think of education as an ecosystem, and of course this ecosystem will be damaged if these major elements fall out of balance.” (front page continued on p3).

Also in this issue:

Research for A Level reform (p6) - Dr Irenka Suto, a Senior Research Officer at Cambridge Assessment, explains how she and other researchers are collaborating with colleagues in its UK exam board OCR, to collect, analyse and report data from Higher Education (HE) representatives systematically.

Cambridge helps to prepare US students for college and career (p8) - Cambridge exams are central to a national pilot programme that seeks to make American high schools more globally competitive and more responsive to students’ individual needs Guest column by Richard Partington, Senior Tutor at Churchill College, University of Cambridge on A Level reform (p2).

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