Education minister Huw Lewis says it will work alongside a new body, Qualifications Wales (QW), when Wales-specific exams are launched in September 2015. Mr Lewis’s predecessor, Leighton Andrews, had suggested the WJEC could be “collapsed into” QW.
At the moment, exams in Wales are regulated by the Welsh government and critics have stressed the need for an independent regulator to avoid difficulties arising from last year’s GCSE English grading fiasco.
Addressing members of the Welsh Assembly, Mr Lewis said QW would provide an “independent, authoritative and expert point of reference on qualifications”, both for the Welsh government and interested stakeholders.
He also said the WJEC was a “repository of a very great deal of experience” that would be “very difficult to do without”.
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