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Good morning.

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It gives me great pleasure, very great pleasure, to welcome you here today to the inaugural

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conference of the Cambridge Assessment Network.

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In the modern world, trust is not given unconditionally and it must be supported by understanding.

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Cambridge Assessment has set up its assessment network, whose inaugural conference this is,

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precisely to support such understanding and to address this need by providing professional development and training

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for practitioners, interested stakeholders and educationalists.

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I am delighted and proud that we are taking a lead in this

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at a time when the subject is of such intense

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public interest and indeed debate One of the elements in this debate of course is the question of access an issue about which we have strong views here at Cambridge I glad to report that arriving here as Vice

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Chancellor two years ago, I have found a deep, strong commitment to ensuring the equity of our

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admissions processes and policies.

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Results in public examinations,

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however they are supplemented with other information,

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must necessarily play a key part in this,

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and both the examinations themselves and their outcomes

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need to be and to be seen to be unimpeachably fair.

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But these outcomes don't exist in isolation

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from the educational process that delivers them.

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And we also have a responsibility to ensure

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that the impact of our assessments

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on the educational context in which they operate

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is beneficial.