Working with refugees - Personal Journeys To mark Refugee Week, we highlight the work that Cambridge Assessment employees have been doing with refugees, to help raise awareness and celebrate the contribution of refugees to society. Read more
Working with refugees Cambridge Assessment English recognises that for refugees and asylum seekers, gaining English language skills is essential to settling successfully in their host country. We have taken a key role in a number of programmes aimed at providing opportunities for forced migrants and supporting those working with them. Read more
Functional Skills - What will they add up to? Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, considers the possible impact of the new Functional Skills qualifications and an Advanced Maths Premium. How will student choices be influenced, and what will be the effect not only on the numbers studying maths but on other subjects and qualifications? Read more
From Secretary to Chief Executive - 160 years at the helm of Cambridge Assessment As we welcome a new Chief Executive, our archivist Gillian looks back at those who came before him and built Cambridge Assessment, which now provides education programmes and exams in over 170 countries, offering global recognition for our learners. Read more
Keeping Artificial Intelligence Human: Combining the Power of AI with the Experience of Examiners Jing Xu from our Research and Thought Leadership team explores two examples of how Artificial Intelligence supports Cambridge Assessment English in generating over half a billion marks every single year. Read more
The English language transforms the lives of migrants Increasing support for non-English speaking migrants will produce a more united society and a stronger economy. We sponsored a report by Demos outlining the need for a national ESOL strategy to enable this. Read more
It’s all about choices Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, insists we must welcome the new proposals for careers advice which may not be perfect but have to be an improvement on where we are now and which include a commitment to providing advice to students about the new T Levels. Read more
Low grade boundaries – you can’t eat your cake and have it The philosophy of the GCSE is sometimes said to be that of ‘rewarding positive achievement’, but what does this mean, exactly? Here, the Director of our Research Division, Tom Bramley, unpacks the UK's exam grade boundary setting system. Read more
The research tradition at Cambridge Assessment Although research projects have been carried out at Cambridge Assessment since the 1930s, it wasn't until 1967 that a permanent research unit was established. Our archivist Gillian tells the story of how three examination boards came together to make it happen. Read more
Digital research methods in action Collaboration with external education experts is essential to our research and we face a constant challenge in making our co-operation with them as time- and cost-effective as possible. Read more
How can research influence education policy and practice? One of the newest members of our Research Divison reports back from his first BERA experience, where he learnt more about how research can influence education policy and practice. Read more
Research Matters Research Matters is our free biannual publication which allows us to share our assessment research, in a range of fields, with the wider assessment community.