Ofqual

What is ofqual?

Ofqual is the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation — the non-ministerial UK government department that regulates qualifications, exams and assessments in England (with parallel bodies in the devolved nations). Ofqual approves GCSEs, A-Levels and vocational qualifications and oversees how exam boards (AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC) set and mark papers. It does not write exams itself.