In January 2007, OCR submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee Inquiry into 14-19 Diplomas.

In this, we acknowledged that Diplomas represent an important and exciting opportunity to revolutionise the 14-19 curriculum, creating new and engaging programmes of learning for young people, but we also raised concerns about how the Diplomas have so far been developed and pointed out that opportunities to re-use the best of existing qualifications and systems had been missed.

View a full copy of OCR's submission, prefaced with an executive summary by Greg Watson, OCR's Chief Executive.

Following the first Select Committee hearing on 14-19 Diplomas on 17 January, OCR submitted a follow-up letter to the committee, challenging some of the verbal evidence the Committee heard on that day. In particular, we highlighted a potential misunderstanding that the first 5 Diplomas were largely complete and that all the technical issues (grading in particular) had been resolved. View an extract from this letter.

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