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Edexcel

Organization information
Formation1996
PurposeExamination board
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Region servedEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Parent organizationPearson

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Edexcel, a UK company, is one of England, Wales and Northern Ireland's five main examination boards, and is wholly owned by the private-sector Pearson PLC, a UK-based media and publishing conglomerate. Its name is a portmanteau word derived from the words "educational" and "excellence". The company offers a variety of qualifications, including A levels (GCEs), GCSEs and the BTEC suite of vocational qualifications. It operates internationally, awarding over 1.5 million certificates to students around the world every year. It ran the marking of the UK National Curriculum assessments until 2008 when ETS Europe was given the highly lucrative contract. Following the 2008 marking debacle, ETS Europe was stripped of its contract and Edexcel was awarded a contract to remark disputed test papers. Edexcel was then re-hired to run the assessments from 2009. Its main competitors are AQA and OCR.

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Medical Services unveils £3m state of the art London ambulance station - Private Healthcare UK Tweet this news
Private Healthcare UK--Alperton is an accredited Health & Safety and -Edexcel- training centre for continuous personal skill improvement programmes; innovative training features ... - Date : Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:20:36 GMT+00:00
CXC restructures - New business unit in search of branding partners - Jamaica Gleaner Tweet this news
Jamaica Gleaner--CXC has also signed a memorandum of understanding with Pearson Education and its subsidiary, -Edexcel-, towards strengthening the vocational education ... - Date : Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:16:24 GMT+00:00
SIA Licence Holders Under Scrutiny - Release-news.com (press release) Tweet this news
Release-news.com (press release)--An -Edexcel- spokesperson said, "-Edexcel- takes any abuse of our qualifications very seriously. We received allegations of malpractice within Tristar and ... - Date : Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:59:50 GMT+00:00
Edexcel appoints Virtue for its PR and media communications program in MENA ... - Al-Bawaba Tweet this news
Al-Bawaba---Edexcel-, the leading UK based awarding body which is part of Pearson, the world's largest education services provider, has appointed Virtue PR & Marketing ... - Date : Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:51:32 GMT+00:00
Business Management for after A/L students - Sunday Times.lk Tweet this news
Sunday Times.lk--The British College of Applied Studies -Edexcel- approved Higher National Diploma in Business Management titled as BTEC HND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT with a view to ... - Date : Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:06:06 GMT+00:00
New training centres - News On Sunday Tweet this news
News On Sunday--Some of the trainees received the Higher National Diploma accredited by BTEC -Edexcel- UK, Lycée d'Hotellerie et de Tourisme of St Quentin in Yvelines and the ... - Date : Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:06:39 GMT+00:00
Peter Jones claims youth enterprise schemes 'put good money after bad' - Telegraph.co.uk Tweet this news
Telegraph.co.uk--Instead, Mr Jones wants the Government to help him adapt an enterprise curriculum he has developed with -Edexcel-, the qualifications awarding group, ... - Date : Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:10:25 GMT+00:00
Trainee teachers wanted to mark Edexcel exams - Independent Tweet this news
Independent--The move, by the -Edexcel- exam boards, is being criticised by teachers' leaders who say only trained teachers should do the job. ... - Date : Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:01:13 GMT+00:00
200-plus SIA licences suspended due to alleged training malpractice - Info4Security Tweet this news
Info4Security--Awarding body -Edexcel- has withdrawn the Level 2 BTEC Award in Door Supervision certificates issued by Tristar, and removed the operation from ... - Date : Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:41:07 GMT+00:00
National & Higher National Information Event - Mix 96 Tweet this news
Mix 96--The new -EDEXCEL- Nationals as an alternative or in combination with “A” level study. 2. The new Higher Nationals in Engineering as an alternative to ... - Date : Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:03:36 GMT+00:00

Examination boards in the United Kingdom

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