The marking of mock examinations for 2024 has commenced and we are as busy as usual. If your school or academy are interested in outsourcing your marking so teachers are free to do other important work why don’t you contact us for a quotation. You…

As we are at a time of year that mocks are being sat, we urge schools to contact us if you are interested in our marking services as we are rapidly getting busier. Please email jasminefretwell@qa-associates.co.uk if you are interested.

We are pleased to announce that our apprentice Jasmine has just received a Distinction in her recent Marketing qualification.

We are conducting a short survey to get information about whether schools are considering using external services or still conducting it using teachers. Could you spare two minutes to answer six multi-choice questions? We would really appreciate this and of course, we will send you…

QA Associates hope that everyone at schools, colleges and academies had a good summer and that GCSE and A Level examination results were as you wished for. We would like to thank those of you that used our external mock examination marking services…

QA Associates are very pleased to have marked mock examinations for our first overseas client in UAE, we look forward to what will be a busy academic year of expansion as we see a higher demand for our services and take our business overseas.

After seven years working with QA, Denise has retired and will be really missed. after a long career in senior positions not least eight years with the police, Denise is going to embark on her great passion – holidays, holidays and more holidays. Taking the…

With an increasing number of new schools using our services for marking and validation we have been surprised with the number of different subjects that we now cover. Spanish is the latest addition which means we have markers for over twenty subjects. Other surprises have…

QA Associates are delighted to announce, ‘Awarding Body’ approval for a new Level 7 Advanced Professional Award within our ‘BTEC assessment centre’. Working in partnership with Autonomy Expert Services Limited (AES) who will deliver the expert training delivery, QA are providing the administration relating to the…

Students are back in school next week and orders for marking examination papers are already coming in. It looks like school marking requirements are changing to meet new circumstances with the majority of orders seeking our moderation service. This is where we typically mark 20…

We are very pleased to report that Pearson Edexcel have completed their annual external verification and audit of our qualification, ‘BTEC Level 6 Professional Award in Regulatory Skills in the Health and Social Care Sector’. The audit process by Pearson examines both the work submitted…

What a few weeks that we have just had!. A big thank you to all our markers for completing their exam allocations prior to close of play on the 24th December. One batch of scripts were delivered late and they will be marked during the…

This years mock exam papers have now started coming in with the first batch for moderation completed and returned to a Sheffield based School. We are now well into marking for a large batch of papers for a number of schools in a wide range…

Despite all the difficulties with Covid 19, QA are busy marking and assessing a variety of examination papers and project work including BTECs in Investigative Practice, Regulatory Skills in the Health and Social Care Sector and School Finance and Operational Leadership.. Well done to all…

At last the majority of ‘A’ level and GCSE results are out following many twists and turns in the process. At QA we are very pleased that our marking services used by a number of schools throughout the country has made a contribution. The centre…

Really pleased we did not have to furlough any of our admin team as assessments for our BTEC and other customised qualifications have steadily been coming in for marking. Looks like candidates and learners took the opportunity to send in their work early rather than…

No Furlough at QA Really pleased we did not have to furlough any of our admin team as assessments for our BTEC and other customised qualifications have steadily been coming in for marking. Looks like candidates and learners took the opportunity to send in their…

According to the latest from Government, teachers will have a large role to play to submitting evidence to support the predicted grades of their pupils as summer GCSE and ‘A’ Levels examinations have been cancelled. With well over 4000 mock examination papers marked by us…

We have just received this great testimony from one of our clients, North East Futures UTC. As well as marking this years mock GCSE papers across a range of subjects, we also facilitated the marking of scanned scripts submitted by students undertaking mock exams from…

As summer GCSE and ‘A’ Levels examinations have been cancelled our examination marking service could be more important than ever. Teachers may well be asked to submit the grade they believe the student would have received if exams had gone ahead, based on their performance...