But the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) says fewer appeals resulted in changed grades.
Further up the road, another education quango, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, is also being abolished.
Alternative curricula options need to be provided rather than the limited offerings from Curriculum Development Division at present.
Teachers want more responsibility in relation to curriculum development, assessment, selection of students, conselling and their own professional development needs.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency faces efficiency savings - and its long-term future will be decided later this year.
The curriculum development has now successfully reached a final stage and the implementation of the new curriculum will commence in 2013.
Recommendations for national capacity development on training and re-training personnel for quality ECCE (policy, systems, scientific research, innovations and curriculum development) will be developed.
Cariscience coordinates exchanges between researchers, teachers and students, organizes joint research projects and regional courses, supports curriculum development and the training of science teachers.
It also abolishes a number of education quangos, including the the QCDA (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency), which Mr Blunkett described as "very worrying factor".
Haiti can count on UNESCO in all its actions, whether it is capacity building or improving the quality of education through teacher training and curriculum development.
And, we are launching a Center for Social Responsibility in Entertainment and Performing Arts as a hub for research, curriculum development, distinguished visiting artists and public programming.
The report says that the Nepal experience highlights the question of whether primary textbook-driven curriculum development can meet the skills and dispositional learning outcome ambitions of DRR Education.
Other education programmes include the nationwide Metrobank Math Challenge, the national College Scholarship Programme and an educational grants programme to fund construction of school buildings, curriculum development, and teacher training, among others.
The Project provides technical assistance to develop skills in curriculum development and curriculum assessment, thereby increasing the value added of the new curriculum in terms of impact on students' knowledge acquisition and their achievement.
I'd been happily working for the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) for just over two years when, at 15:00 on 27 May 2010, a hastily arranged staff briefing was held in our shiny new offices.
Most of the people who teach at BGI move on within a few years, so the wheel for most course sequences is reinvented all the time, which implies huge adjustment and faculty-training costs and little continuity in curriculum development.
How does the vision take into account the level of the ICT infrastructure development in the country, the availability of unified ICT-based information-educational environment, the approaches to curriculum development and the diversity of educational settings, and the ICT competencies of teachers and learners, and educational staff?
Though schools try to utilize teachers as mentors more and more often these days, compensating teachers for long term investments in curriculum development and alignment is still fairly rare (though to be fair, it seems to be on the increase as well, from what I can tell anecdotally).
Funded by the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, First Lady of Qatar and UNESCO special envoy for Basic and Higher education, the Curriculum Development project aims to contribute to modernization and reconciliation in Iraqi society by reformulating the Iraqi school curriculum and textbooks.
Participants commented on the workshop as allowing them an opportunity to learn a wide range of concepts and issues involving international comparative perspective inclusive curricula, inclusive schooling, processes of curriculum design and development, and curriculum framework and textbook development scenarios of different countries.
Provide technical assistance and advice to, and training of, national teams responsible for curriculum change and development processes, in the context of national curriculum making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes through the use of diversified content and promotion of unversally shared values and with an expanded vision of educational quality and innovation.
Whether it is to teach a career development curriculum or to conduct courses infused with career education the professional development of teachers should give them a basic framework for career planning and how to connect activities in the classroom to the events unfolding in the labour market.
But according to Liu Jian of the ministry's National Centre for School Curriculum and Textbook Development, employers from a variety of enterprises said they wanted a quicker timetable.
The Diploma courses respond to a real need, identified by IBE and UNESCO Regional Offices, namely to enhance the capacities of ministry of education officials and specialists in curriculum design and development.
As a result of the devolution of a number of tasks relating to education the relevant authorities of Provincial Departments of Education are in need of technical assistance for capacity building in the areas of curriculum and textbook development.
The strategy focuses on teacher development, curriculum and student assessment, inclusive education, and technical and vocational training.
We are bringing our certification curriculum (for software development) to local schools.
In Iraq, UNESCO is supporting the two Ministries of Education in planning, curriculum revision and material development, as well as mobilizing and building the capacity of civil society organizations who are delivering much of the literacy programming.
At the same time, it has also been designed to suit the professional development needs of curriculum developers, education policy makers and authors of educational materials.
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