Press Release
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2006 (NR/04/06)
CCEA calls on support for the Marking and Moderation of exams
This week CCEA, Northern Ireland ’s exams body is embarking on its biggest ever recruitment drive to engage teachers and other suitably qualified individuals to join its team of professional markers and examiners.
Each year an increasing number of Northern Ireland teachers and students are choosing CCEA examinations, likewise CCEA are offering an increasingly wider portfolio of qualifications. The marking and moderation of these examinations is a mammoth task, carrying substantial responsibility and requiring considerable skill.
CCEA’s Martin Quinn explains;
“Few people appreciate the sheer scale of the operation that takes place each summer to ensure Northern Ireland ’s students receive their grades in August. In 2005, CCEA examiners and markers processed over three quarters of a million scripts and finalised close to a quarter of a million grades. A supply of well-trained and motivated examiners is vital to our business and the health of the whole examining system in general.
Examiners joining CCEA will become part of a team of highly professional subject specialists with a unique insight into the examining process. These insights can, in turn, be used to real benefit in the classroom in helping students study and prepare for exams. Full training and support is provided and there is of course the opportunity to earn extra money.
If you feel you have the knowledge and experience required to fill this important role, please contact CCEA appointments on (028) 9026 1243 or 9026 1294, or visit www.rewardinglearning.com/examiners”.
CCEA is recruiting qualified serving and retired teachers and lecturers to assist with marking and moderating pupils’ examinations in GCSE/GCE and Applied Subjects.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are qualified in:
- Art and Design
- Business Studies
- Economics
- English
- English Literature
- Geography
- Government and Politics
- History
- Home Economics
- ICT
- Religious Studies
- Learning for Life and Work (LFLW)
- Irish
- Music (Visiting Examiners)
- Technology and Design (AS/A2)
- Applied Subjects
- History of Art and Design
We also want to hear from those fluent in IRISH and qualified in:
- Biology
- Business Studies
- Chemistry
- French
- Geography
- Government and Politics
- History
- ICT
- Mathematics
- Music
- Physical Education
- Religious Studies
- Learning for Life and Work (LFLW)
- Science
- Technology
Media enquiries to Ruth Maguire on (028) 9026 1216, Mobile 07796947993. E mail rhmaguire@ccea.org.uk
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Note to Editors
CCEA is the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.
CCEA places learners and those who have a concern for their educational and personal development at the forefront of its thinking. CCEA's mission is:
"To enable the full potential of all learners to be achieved and recognised"
What we do
CCEA is a unique educational body in the UK , bringing together the three areas of curriculum, examinations and assessment.
Advising Government – on what should be taught in Northern Ireland ’s schools and colleges.
Monitoring Standards – ensuring that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard.
Awarding Qualifications
– as Northern Ireland’s leading awarding body we offer a diverse range of qualifications, such as GCSEs, including the new GCSE Double Award specifications in vocational subjects, GCE A and AS levels, Entry Level Qualifications, and Graded Objectives in Modern Languages.
- CCEA also offers a range of Awards and Certificates in Education, Training and Skills (ACETS) targeted at learners who want to get
the knowledge, understanding and skills needed
to hit the ground running in the world of work.
