November's monthly teacher bulletin has landed!
We hope the second half of term is going well for you and your students.
Welcome to our November bulletin where you'll find the latest news, updates and resources.
Teachers and heads of department, please complete this short survey on the JCQ's guidance on AI Use in Assessments. Your responses are greatly appreciated and will help the JCQ to improve future versions of the guidance, ensuring it's helpful and relevant to schools and colleges. Please share this survey with your colleagues, and complete it by Tuesday 21 November.
English teachers – in case you haven't heard, your students are invited to submit an entry in our exciting competition to design a brand new cover for our non-fiction anthology of texts for A Level in English Language and Literature! The winning school/college and student will win ￡300 in Cambridge Bookshop vouchers. More information is available on our website.
Thank you to everyone who completed the Rebooting Education survey, an initiative we launched earlier this term in partnership with Reboot the Future. The report is now available, and summarises your thoughts, insights and experiences, informing how we can create a regenerative, transformative, green education system. Download your copy today.
In this month's edition of our bulletin:
Finally, don't forget, our dedicated subject teams are on hand to support you as you plan and deliver our qualifications. Read more about the role of our subject advisors, and how they can support you in our new blog. Get in touch to introduce yourself; they'd love to hear from you!
Best wishes
OCR
Keeping you informed: the latest from Ofqual, the JCQ and our policy team
Don't miss out on the latest sector news and announcements:
Resilience arrangements: now confirmed
We've now published the resilience arrangements for our qualifications. Please take the time to familiarise yourself with these requirements that schools and colleges must follow in the event exams don't take place.?
Introducing Cambridge Advanced Nationals (AAQs)
Cambridge Advanced Nationals (AAQs), our new Level 3 qualifications, are available for first teaching in 2025.?
Designed for students aged 16-19 years, our Level 3 Cambridge Advanced Nationals will complement existing A Level study programmes. Our qualifications will provide students with the practical and essential skills and knowledge they need to better prepare themselves for entry into higher education and university.
Join one of our free webinars
Our webinars are designed to provide you with a summary of our new Level 3 Cambridge Advanced Nationals for first teaching in September 2025:
Continue teaching Cambridge Technicals with confidence
You can continue teaching our current Cambridge Technicals Level 3 qualifications with confidence in 2023/24. Apart from the Level 3 Cambridge Technical (2016) Diploma in IT (720 GLH) and the Level 3 Cambridge Technical (2016) Extended Diploma in IT (1080 GLH), which are to be defunded in July 2024, our other Level 3 Cambridge Technicals are unaffected in 2024/25. If there were to be a change to existing policies, for example, due to a change of government, this reform may be reviewed which could lead to a continuation of funding for current Level 3 qualifications.?
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Everything you need for Cambridge Nationals
We published the latest Cambridge Nationals bulletin this week, sharing key dates, resources, question of the month and more.
We also sent an email to teachers this week about understanding the terminal rule; please read this important update about our current Cambridge Nationals.
Join one of our drop-in sessions this month to support you with understanding the terminal rule (we've added a new date, 17 November, so book your place today).
We recently published the grade boundaries (for our current Cambridge Nationals) from the June 2023 series; you can download them via our website.
Would you like to try our new Digital Mocks Service?
We're planning a December 2023 series with digital mock assessments for GCSE English Language (J351) components 01 and 02 based on the November 2021 past papers, and GCSE Computer Science (J277) components 01 and 02 based on the June 2022 past papers and the practice papers from Interchange.
The December 2023 series will run from 4 December 2023 to 10 March 2024 with weekly test windows and a two-week Christmas break between 18 December 2023 and 7 January 2024.
The digital mock assessments:
Schools and colleges that took part in the January 2023 Digital Mocks Service highlighted the following benefits:
It's important to note that this is a paid-for service. The fee will be ￡10 for each paper booked. For example: if a class of 30 students was booked for the assessment, this would be ￡10 per student, a total of ￡300 for the class.
If you'd like to take part or would just like to find out more, please complete the expression of interest form (links above) and we'll be in touch with more details.
Teach Cambridge: find all resources and support for your subject in one place
Our personalised?and secure website, Teach Cambridge, has been designed to provide teachers with access to resources and support for their subject, all in one place.
After successfully adding past papers, mark schemes and examiners' reports to Teach Cambridge this summer, we've now transferred all teaching resources from the qualification pages on our public website to Teach Cambridge, including assessment resources, such as pre-release materials.
You can read a summary about Teach Cambridge, including the support and resources available, in our recent update.
Artificial intelligence (AI): support and upcoming webinars
We hope you managed to book your place on our upcoming webinars this month and are looking forward to welcoming you. The events are now fully booked, but don't worry; we'll share the recordings on our dedicated AI webpage shortly after the events.
In our new blog post, we provide a summary of the support and guidance available to help you navigate AI in education and assessment.
Planning mock exams? We've got you covered!
Help your students prepare and gain confidence for their exams using ExamBuilder, our FREE test-building platform. With ExamBuilder, you can customise questions and tests to meet the unique needs of each student.
We regularly improve ExamBuilder and update our FAQs page in response to your feedback.
Select from an extensive collection of questions to create tailored tests and customised mark schemes, giving you the flexibility to include personalised cover pages that mirror authentic exams. Additionally, you have the ability to modify and access numerous previous papers.