These include submissions of folio work, internal assessment grades and estimates, visits from external examiners and visiting other schools as an external examiner.
Her account of this centred around the role of the external examiner, who had observed her teach a lesson.
When a student felt ready to graduate, he would request an examination which was conducted by an external examiner.
Many of us who have been involved in the marking world are entirely familiar with the idea of the external examiner.
Cannot the exercise be carried out in the kind of way that an external examiner would do so?
What is the difference between what we are being offered here and the external examiner, who has existed for years?
In any case we have, although it seems to have been forgotten, the external examiner system which ensures that any inadequacy of standards is quickly brought to light.
The external examiner arrangements within institutions will clearly need to be the subject of scrutiny by the quality audit unit in view of their importance in ensuring independent checks.
