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Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus, in College Road, offers a range of vocational courses for school-leavers. It houses the Arc Theatre, a venue for live performances, as well as hair and beauty salons, science labs, motor vehicle workshops, art studios, Mac suites, a production studio and The White Horse Restaurant, a student-run restaurant.
Summer Term runs from Easter to mid-July (half term ends in late May/early June). At the end of each half-term a holiday lasts about one week (usually nine full days, including two weekends), although in the autumn term, some schools give students two week long holidays (16 full days, including 3 weekends) to account for the term being longer ...
Until the mid-1990s, academic exam boards and vocational accreditors were run very much as separate organisations. In more recent times, this distinction has been removed, with all the term 'awarding bodies' now being used. This article focuses on the contemporary and historical awarding bodies that set academic exams in state schools.
Term 1 starts in late January or early February and ends in late March or early April (often in close proximity to Easter). Term 2 starts in late April or early May and ends in late June or early July. Term 3 starts in mid-to-late July and ends mid-to-late September. Term 4 starts in early-to-mid October and ends typically in mid-to-late December.
The Conservative Party under Prime Minister David Cameron initiated reforms for A Levels to change from the current modular to a linear structure. [8] British examination boards (Edexcel, AQA, OCR and WJEC) regulated and accredited by Ofqual responded to the government's reform announcements by modifying syllabi of several A Level subjects.
Dauntsey's School is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school) for pupils aged 11–18 in the village of West Lavington, Wiltshire, England. The school was founded in 1542 in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey , a master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers .
The AOSB has its roots in the War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs), created by Army psychiatrists in 1942 during World War II.They involved candidates taking a three-day stay in a country house, where tests were administered including written tests of mental ability, questionnaires, leaderless group tests and interviews.
Wiltshire (/ ˈ w ɪ l t. ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪr /; [2] abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to the west.