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A Review into Exam Results Issues Concerning the Scottish Qualifications Authority

Footnotes

1 Both quotations are taken from the Invitation to Tender, Scottish Executive Reference QLC/3/14, 18 August 2000.

2 In order to make clear the distinction between the computer system and the SQA's complete system in this report, the computer system is referred to as APS and the wider business processes as Awards Processing.

3 All quotations in italics in 2.1 are taken from the Invitation To Tender, Scottish Executive reference QLC/3/14, 18 August 2000.

4 See Appendix II for a full list of those interviewed.

5 The Scottish Office Education and Industry Department, April 1997, finalised March 1998.

6 In paragraph 21, page 6.

7 See ELLD's evidence to the ELLC Inquiry, paragraphs 14-16, pages 10 and 11.

8 All references in this section from the SQA’s 1998/99 ‘Review of the Year’.

9 Management Statement and Financial Memorandum (MSFM), Scottish Office Education and Industry Department, paragraph 6.1.

10 MSFM, paragraph 6.2 and 6.3.

11 MSFM, paragraph 7.2.

12 MSFM, paragraph 8.3.

13 Both requirements stated in MSFM, paragraph 9.1.

14 Review of the Year 1998/99, page 2.

15 See section 4.3.

16 See section 6, paragraphs 6.1 - 6.8 of MSFM.

17 Headed ‘Special SMT’.

18 This e-mail was headed ‘Data Processing’.

19 Dated 20 June 2000.

20 ibid, paragraph 7.3.

21 ibid, paragraph 3.1.

22 ibid, paragraph 3.26.

23 section 4.1.5. above.

24 MSFM, Paragraph 6.3.

25 Section 4.1.9. above.

26 Source: SQA

27 Ingres database on a Sequent platform with Cobol programs used for results processing

28 Record of Education and Training system, AS/400 based using DB2/400

29 Higher Still and Awarding Body IT Systems paper, 24 November 1995

30 An Investigation of SQA's Information Systems Needs, Admiral Management Services Ltd, December 1996

31 Additional software to link the two existing databases

32 Ingres and OpenROAD with a Sequent platform

33 Source: Deloitte & Touche

34 SQA SMT Minutes, 13 March 1997

35 APS Roles and Responsibilities, January 1998

36 APS Project Board Minutes, 30 April 1998

37 Defining APS Requirements memo from David Elliot, April 1999

38 Information Technology Unit Plan, Planning year 2000-2001

39 E-mail from Bill Arundel, dated 14 July 2000

40 SQA Board of Management, 23 March 2000 - APS, Business and Administrative Arrangements Progress Report

41 APS Project Board Minutes, 25 August 1999

42 Performance issues were experienced with the OpenROAD software linking to the database particularly in the Approvals module

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