HEQA timeline

A list of HEQA’s activities: meetings with organisations, submissions to consultations, etc.

2021

• 28 September 2021
  Meeting with OCR and Pearson about access to past papers for home-educated students

• 17 September 2021
  Meeting with Welsh Government Education Directorate

• 3 September 2021
  Meeting with CAIE about standards setting with dual assessment

• 24 August 2021
  Meeting with OCR and Pearson about access to past papers for home-educated students

• 23 August 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education and Ofqual about contingency plans for 2022

• 19 August 2021
  Meeting with Ofqual about appeals for Summer 2021 assessments

• 17 August 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education

• 1 August 2021
  Response to the Proposed changes to the assessment of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2022 consultation
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 28 July 2021
  Meeting with the Joint Council for Qualifications about appeals and the Autumn 2021 exam series

• 21 July 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education and Ofqual about assessment of home-educated candidates in 2022

• 18 June 2021
  Access to University and Home Education conference

• 15 June 2021
  OCR Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging board meeting

• 19 May 2021
  Response to the Revised GCSE qualifications in modern foreign languages consultation
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 17 May 2021
  Meeting with Ofqual and the Department for Education about private candidate assessment 2021

• 13 May 2021
  Response to the Post-Qualification Admissions Reform Consultation
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 22 April 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about support for private candidates

• 8 April 2021
  Response to the Consultation on arrangements for an autumn 2021 exam series
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 26 March 2021
  Meeting with the Joint Council for Qualifications

• 17 March 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about the Autumn 2021 exam series

• 15 March 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education about the Private candidate support grant and the JCQ Interim Guidance for Private Candidate Centres

• 11 March 2021
  Response to the Consultation on the general qualifications alternative awarding framework
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 8 March 2021
  Meeting with CAIE about private candidate assessment in Summer 2021

• 3 March 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about private candidate assessment in Summer and Autumn 2021

• 24 February 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education and Ofqual about assessment of home-educated candidates in 2021
  Background: Home-educated children and assessment (pdf slides)

• 23 February 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about IGCSEs and private candidates in 2021

• 17 February 2021
  Meeting with the Joint Council for Qualifications to discuss arrangements for private candidates in Summer 2021
  Background: Awarding bodies and Home education (pdf)

• 15 February 2021
  Meeting with AQA about arrangements for private candidates in Summer 2021

• 12 February 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education about the Post-Qualification Admissions consultation

• 10 February 2021
  Meeting with the Department for Education about home education

• 10 February 2021
  Meeting with CAIE about arrangements for IGCSEs in 2021

• 5 February 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about IGCSE cancellation

• 3 February 2021
  Meeting with OCR about the implications of exam series for small numbers of candidates

• 29 January 2021
  Response to the Consultation on how GCSE, AS and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021
  HEQA response (pdf)

• 26 January 2021
  Meeting with the Chief Regulator

• 21 January 2021
  Meeting with Ofqual, the Department for Education and organisations with interests in private candidates to discuss the consultation proposals.
  Background: Assessment options and home education (pdf)

• 18 January 2021
  HEQA in the Cornish Times: Student calls for change as exams saga leaves future in doubt

• 17 January 2021
  HEQA in The Guardian: Private entrants to GCSEs and A-levels face second year of delays

• 12 January 2021
  Meeting with CAIE about arrangements for 2021

• 12 January 2021
  Meeting with Ofqual and the Department for Education about arrangements for 2021
  Background: Home-educated candidates in Summer 2021 (pdf)

• 12 January 2021
  Meeting with Pearson about arrangements for 2021

2020

• 11 December 2020
  Meeting with UCAS about predicted grades and post-qualifications admissions

• 13 November 2020
  Meeting with Pearson about 2021 contingency planning, exam centre access, past paper access and subjects with non-exam assessment

• 10 November 2020
  Meeting with Ofqual and the Department for Education about contingency planning and grading for 2021

• 6 November 2020
  Submission to the Education Committee’s Home Education Inquiry
  HEQA submission (pdf)

• 25 October 2020
  HEQA established