Recent Articles in Qualifications and Assessment

Income up 5.1% at VTCT
Jan 31, 2019

Vocational Training Charitable Trust, the Hampshire-based vocational awarding organisation, has reported a deficit before net gains on investments of £991k for the year ended 31 July 2018, on total income up 5.1% to £9.6m.

New CEO for Cambridge Assessment English
Jan 31, 2019

Cambridge Assessment has appointed Francesca Woodward as Chief Executive of Cambridge Assessment English, its English language teaching and learning division.

Growth at Cambridge Assessment’s CA English and CA International Education businesses more than offsets decline at OCR
Jan 1, 2019

Cambridge Assessment (CA) has posted an operating surplus of £86.5m for the year ended 31 July 2018, on income up 6.2% to £446.9m.

Net income more than trebles at Trinity College London
Jan 1, 2019

Trinity College London (TCL), the non-profit international awarding organisation for the performing arts and English language has posted Net Income of £2.8m for the year ended 31 March 2018, on total income up 11% to £54.1m.

NOCN returns to CITB to acquire its Construction Plant Competence Scheme
Jan 1, 2019

CITB has agreed to sell its Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) to NOCN Group, the Sheffield-based not-for-profit Awarding Organisation. 

ACT acquires Knovation
Jan 1, 2019

ACT, the US-based the non-profit assessment and test technology developer, has acquired Knovation, a curator of K-12 open educational resources.

$14.4m for Imbellus to disrupt the assessment market
Nov 30, 2018

Imbellus, the Los Angeles-based developer of simulation-based cognitive assessment technology, has closed a $14.5m Series A round led by Owl Ventures.

Revenue down 2.2% at EAL
Nov 30, 2018

Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited, the not for profit vocational awarding body for engineering, manufacturing and related sectors, has reported an adjusted operating profit of £2.6m for the year ended 31 March 2018, on revenue down 2.2% to £8.3m.

AQA benefits from reform of GCSE qualifications
Oct 31, 2018

AQA Education, the market leading GCSE and A-level not for profit awarding organisation, has posted a 2.5% increase in income from its core Education Services business, principally examinations, to £164.9m for the year ended 31 March 2018.

Pearson on track to meet full year expectations for 2018
Oct 31, 2018

Pearson is on track to deliver underlying profit growth in 2018, according to the company’s trading update for the nine months ended 30 September 2018. 

GL Education partners with FFT to enhance school progress measure
Oct 31, 2018

GL Education and FFT Education have announced a partnership to provide schools with a new value-added assessment tool.

ACER’s UK business benefits from first year of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments
Oct 31, 2018

ACER International UK, the UK arm of the Australian Council for Education Research, has reported a 51% increase in revenue to £5.1m for the year ended 30 June 2018.