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Article: Management - Online assessment initiative setting a course for success. Mark Samuels talks to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's head of e-strategy.(Martin Ripley)(Interview)
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- March 17, 2005
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Byline: Mark Samuels.
When the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) set out its blueprint for online assessments last April, it said that no technological and educational barriers stood in the way of the adoption of online testing.
But at that time, the organisation made it clear that a lack of political will remained a significant impediment to success.
All that has changed in the past month.
First, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly unveiled the government's education White Paper, which announced its aim to ensure young people acquire higher standards in basic skills by the age of 14.
Central to this strategy was the ...