Elaine,

The dedicated testing room existed before I joined the college in Aug 2008. From some of the other JISC postings today, it seems we are lucky, but I really wouldn’t want to run GOLA without our room. Maybe quote JCQ regulations to them ?

Graham Buss

Examinations Manager

East Berkshire College

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Sent: 15 January 2010 14:07
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Subject: Re: Certification Policy and Online Test Resit Charge

You guys with dedicated GOLA facilities are sooo lucky – what magic fairy dust did you use on senior management?!

Elaine Monks

Assessments & Achievements Manager

Yeovil College - Exams

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Sent: 15 January 2010 11:37
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Subject: Re: Certification Policy and Online Test Resit Charge

Sophie,

We post out all our certificates, apart from one curriculum area where they hold an awards ceremony. Personally, I think the staffing costs of allowing students to collect their certificates would exceed our current postage costs.

As of this year, all re-sits, GOLA or otherwise, are payable by the student. Our college fees policy allows for no-shows to be charged, and I intend to do so this year.

We have our own dedicated room for online testing and can access 2 other GOLA equipped rooms at peak times if necessary, although we rarely need to do so.

Regards,

Graham Buss

Examinations Manager

East Berkshire College

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Sent: 15 January 2010 10:29
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Subject: Certification Policy and Online Test Resit Charge

Hello all,

We are looking at changing out certificates policy, currently we send out all certificates but as this is costly senior management are looking at changing this so all students collect there certificates. What policies do other colleges have about sending out certificates, if they’re collected how do you administer this and also for employer responsive students who don’t necessarily come into college and could live far away? We are concentred if certificates are to be collected we’ll have a constant stream of students in and out of the office which we don’t have time for to keep stopping to search for there certificate.

Also, with online test re-sits, we currently don’t charge but are looking at changing this as again a students could re-sit up to 7,8,9 times which is very costly. We find that often if a candidate fails the tutor will put them in for the following week. For centres that do charge, how is this administered? Also do you charge for no-shows?

Also, do other centres have a dedicated exams room?

Many Thanks

Sophie Flitcroft

Exams/CIS Administrator

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