{"id":58614,"date":"2015-07-01T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=fdef87ab18dac0e28389f3c6a904582a"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T09:34:30","slug":"news-story-general-qualifications-appointment-at-ofqual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58614","title":{"rendered":"News story: General qualifications appointment at Ofqual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The role oversees Ofqual\u2019s general qualifications directorate, which has responsibility for qualification accreditation, standards and awarding. Dr Stockford will report directly to Chief Regulator, Glenys Stacey.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the announcement, Glenys Stacey said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted to announce Ian\u2019s appointment. He brings valuable experience of general qualifications, as well as a great passion for the sector, both essential qualities as we progress GCSE, AS and A level reform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr Stockford joined Ofqual in 2014 as Deputy Director of Research and Analysis. His previous roles include Head of Research at AQA and as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. <\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2343\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press office<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 303 3342\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              07798 924 552\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">For enquiries from journalists only. The press office phone is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual is today (1 July) announcing that Dr Ian Stockford has been appointed as its new Executive Director for General Qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}