Written by Asfa Sohail, Executive Principal and Chief Learning Officer, London South East Colleges. The article highlights exam accessibility challenges for SEND students, particularly at the transition from school to college where exam arrangements are not automatically rolled over. A JCQ/DfE database containing every student's access arrangement history – accessible to any educational provider – is proposed as a solution to level the playing field. The piece calls for accessibility to be a core tenet of the future of assessment.
First published in FE Week, 3 September 2022.
