Code of Practice
CIE's Code of Practice outlines our approach to assessment and provides a set of standards which we use as a benchmark for our own performance.
Code of Practice (175Kb)
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Ann Puntis has extensive experience in education and assessment. She obtained a BSc (Econ) with First Class Honours at Cardiff University and proceeded to research at the University of Oxford.
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Facts & figures
- CIE is the world’s largest provider of international qualifications for 14–19 year olds
- CIE qualifications are offered in 160 countries by over 9000 schoools
- CIE is part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.
- Each year we have around 1.5 million subject entries for Cambridge exams
- CIE candidate ages range from 5 to over 70
- We produce around 8 million question papers each year (2.7 million for the June session and 5.6 million for November)
- Over 5 million scripts for general qualifications are marked by CIE each year
- CIE holds more than 800 training days a year, providing over 8000 teachers from across the globe with the skills and knowledge they need to help their students succeed
- More than 2,000 schools across the world, including more than 350 UK schools, teach Cambridge IGCSE
- Cambridge IGCSE is taken in over 120 countries (there are 450,000 entries a year)
- CIE was the first board to develop IGCSE, which celebrated its 20th birthday in September 2005
- Cambridge International A and AS Levels are taken in over 100 countries (over 90,000 entries a year)
- CIE is the biggest provider of O Levels in the world and we offer more than 50 International O Level subjects. Every year CIE has 610,000 entries for International O Level from 76 countries
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