Schools are heading towards an organisational "catastrophe" over exams because of changing working conditions and attitudes towards exam officers among colleagues, a report has claimed.
The role, which has been increasingly professionalised over the past decade, is now seeing its status in decline in many schools because of budgetary constraints and government education reforms, in particular changes to the annual exams timetable.
A study from the Examination Officers’ Association (EOA) found worrying changes in the way exam officers are being treated and viewed in schools in the past two years. While some report no major differences to their roles, others believe they are slowly being stripped of their responsibilities which are being passed on to colleagues on an ad hoc basis.
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