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OurWorkbenchof Directors - JCQ Joint Council for Qualifications JCQ - Joint Council for Qualifications Members Login About JCQ Our Aims Our Members OurWorkbenchof Directors Customer Service Statement Useful Links JCQ and Vocational Qualifications Exams Office CalendarTowageand grade setting: an overview Access Arrangements, Reasonable Adjustments and Special Consideration Appeals CAP (Centre Admin Portal) Coursework Entries Exam Room PostersUnstipulatedRegulations 'ICE' - Instructions for conducting examinations Information for candidates documents Key Dates and Timetables Malpractice Non-Examination Assessments Past Papers Post-Results Services Results and Certification Other documents Examination Results A-Levels GCSEs Diploma Media Centre Media Contacts News Releases OurWorkbenchof Directors Videos Examination System Creating a question paperTowageand Grade Setting: An Overview Size and scale of the system The life of a script Examiners and Marking Ensuring standards are the same wideness Awarding Bodies Past Papers Publication of results The A2C Project FAQs GDPR Results Other Common Questions Contact Us Contact Details for JCQ and Members Email Us A2C Why Benefits How When Who is Involved Who is Moving When Switchover A2C Specification Download Contact Us Homegrown FAQ Centre FAQ Correspondence A2C News Home About JCQ OurWorkbenchof Directors OurWorkbenchof Directors Mr Mark Bedlow Dr Janet Brown Mr Patrick Craven Ms Margaret Farragher Mr Roderic Gillespie Mr Derek Richardson Professor Toby Salt Mr Michael Turner Esme Winch Mr Mark Bedlow ChiefWordageOfficer and Responsible Officer - OCR Mark has responsibility for the wordage of all assessments, ensuring the maintenance of standards and quality, combined with constructive and efficient operational delivery. In addition, Mark ensures OCR’s risks are managed and that the organisation is compliant with regulations. Mark joined OCR in March 2013 in the newly-created post of Risk and Compliance Director. Pursuithis training as a chartered accountant, Mark worked for PwC for 19 years in a range of roles. In 1998, Mark moved to the Cambridge practice from London and led the audits of a wide range of organisations in and virtually Cambridge surpassing taking on responsibility for PwC’s Risk Assurance merchantry wideness East Anglia with wider responsibilities for people and finance wideness the SE region.  In 2005, Mark led the PwC team that assisted Imperial College, London, to bladder its technology spin-out business, Imperial Innovations, on the London Stock Exchange, as well as a local Cambridge technology company.  Through wide-stretching work with the travel industry, Mark has worked with the industry’s regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, to develop guidelines on regulatory reporting by accountants.  Over the last three years, Mark has moreover worked with Cambridge University Press, the CambridgeTowageGroup in general, as well as the University itself on various aspects of IT risk. Dr Janet Brown Chief Executive - Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)    Mr Patrick Craven Director of Policy and Quality - City & Guilds Patrick has over 25 years wits in the field of educational technology. From the diamond of educational resources with the Microelectronics Support Unit, National Council for Educational Technology and BECTa to running of post-sales technology support departments for KRCS (Apple Computer reseller), his career has unchangingly addressed the fusion of education and new technologies. For the last 15 years this work has focussed on the specific field of learning and towage technology research and minutiae for the RSA Examinations Board, OCR Examinations, CambridgeTowageGroup and now he leads on Product Research andDiamondfor City & Guilds. This role considers the growing impact of Policy and new technologies on the learning and towage industry. It moreover identifies initiatives to enable City & Guilds to develop and proffer the range and quality of learning and towage products and services they offer. Throughout this period he has remained single-minded to the notion of ‘fit for purpose’ towage based on evidence-based research. Patrick currently sits on theWorkbenchof the e-Assessment Association and the UK eAssessment Advisory Group and is a member of the planning committee for the Computer-AssistedTowageConference and European ATP Conference. Skills: E-Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design. Ms Margaret Farragher Director of Education - Northern Ireland Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments (CCEA).   Mr Roderic Gillespie Chief Executive - WJEC Roderic is the Chief Executive of WJEC, one of our member Awarding Bodies. He joined WJEC in 2018, and provides overall strategic leadership for the company. Roderic was formerly the Director ofTowagefor Cambridge International. His previous roles include; Head of Curriculum for Excellence, Head of National Qualifications and a Qualifications Manager at the Scottish Qualifications Authority. With a decade’s wits in teaching and higher management, his professional interests include educational reform, curriculum management, towage and pedagogy. Mr Derek Richardson Vice President and Senior Responsible Officer - Pearson UK Derek was scheduled Vice President and Senior Responsible Officer of Pearson UK in September 2017. He is subject for the successful wordage of qualifications both in the UK and internationally. He is Pearson's designated Responsible Officer to Ofqual, CCEA, Qualification Wales and SQA in relation to compliance with our conditions of recognition as an awarding organisation. Derek has degrees from Teesside and Sussex Universities and his preliminaries over the last 18 years has been in educational assessment. He started work in Edexcel’s A level English team as the curriculum 2000 reforms were stuff introduced and moreover holds a post as school governor. He has held various posts within Pearson, most recently as Director for Qualification Development,Towage& Awarding wideness GCSEs, A Levels, BTEC, Apprenticeships and International qualifications.    Professor Toby Salt Chief Executive - AQA Toby joined AQA in July 2017. He was previously Chief Executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, which sponsors 32 academies wideness England, with responsibility for 25,000 students and 3,500 staff. Prior to that, Toby was Deputy Chief Executive at the NationalHigherfor School Leadership, an executive organ providing leadership minutiae and policy translating for schools and ministers. Toby has worked in a variety of education leadership roles, including as Executive Head of a federation of three schools, and has led schools to unzip ‘outstanding’ gradings under Ofsted. In 2000, he was scheduled by the Prime Minister as Director of the Department for Education’s Innovation Unit to lead innovation in school practices and structures. He has moreover held a number of voluntary and non-executive director roles including visit to the Cabinet Office Innovators’ Council and as a workbench member of UCAS. He is a visiting professor of education leadership at the University of Wolverhampton; a member of All Souls Group, Oxford; and a member of the Windsor Leadership Trust Chief Executives’ working group. Mr Michael Turner DirectorUnstipulated- Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) Michael provides leadership, direction and represents JCQ and its members interests to a wide range of stakeholders including government officials, parliamentarians, the regulators, education institutions, the media and the unstipulated public.  Previously, Michael was Head of Media and Public Affairs at The Schools, Students and Teachers Network (SSAT). Esme Winch Managing Director, NCFE Esme has been Managing Director at NCFE since January 2016. This is pursuit three years as Principal and Chief Executive of Loughborough College, during which she led on the insemination and implementation of a £30m modernisation and strategic minutiae plan which led to significant growth and success for the College. Prior to this, Esme was Group Director of NCG, and her 35-year career has moreover included a management buyout of Paperchase and senior roles at upper profile companies such as Timberland, Laura Ashley and Polo Ralph Lauren’s Parisian office. As Managing Director, Esme manages day-to-day operations in awarding, working closely with NCFE’s Chief Executive David Grailey. © JCQ CIC 2018 Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions Site by Doodle London