Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment

Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment
Abbreviation CCEA
Formation 1 April 1994[1]
Type Non-departmental public body (NDPB)
Headquarters Belfast, UK
Location
  • 29 Clarendon Road
    Clarendon Dock
    Belfast BT1 3BG
Region served
Northern Ireland, England and Wales
Website www.ccea.org.uk

The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) is a Non-departmental public body (NDPB) of the Department of Education (Northern Ireland).

CCEA’s principal products and services are described in the Education (NI) Order 1998. CCEA’s duties and functions are to:

CCEA also has a remit for the development of educational technology and the production of multimedia resources and is considered a leader in this field.

CCEA was established on 1 April 1994[2] as a NDPB and is based in Belfast. It replaced the Northern Ireland Schools Examination and Assessment Council and the Northern Ireland Schools Examination Council.

Awarding Qualifications

CCEA offers a wide range of qualifications, such as GCSEs, including the new GCSE Double Award specifications in vocational subjects, GCE A and AS levels, Entry Level Qualifications, Keyskills, Essential Skills, and Graded Objectives in Modern Languages. Due to educational reforms of the Conservative Party under Prime Minister David Cameron CCEA (among other British examination boards i.e. Edexcel, AQA, OCR and WJEC) continuously redevelops syllabi for GCSEs and GCE A Levels.[3][4]

Principal Products and Services

CCEA’s principal products and services are to meet the requirements outlined in the Education (NI) Order.[5] CCEA’s duties and functions are therefore to:

Departments

- approx 3 Other 11 developers 4 testers 4 infrastructure
developing internal and external software tools for teachers/schools related to examinations e.g. marks processing
Technologies used are Java/Eclipse/SVN/Maven/IceFaces/JIRA/Zephyr for JIRA/AS400 backend/MS Sharepoint
Software Technologies used are Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro X),Dreamweaver,Flash,Director,Premiere

Miscellaneous

In general conversation CCEA is commonly called 'See-ah' since the introduction of the current logo.

The exam board has also come under fire because of allegations related to poor working conditions (e.g. staff needed being obliged to work during weekends). The consequence were strikes by CCEA's labour union.[8]

Incorporated Examination Boards

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