{"id":70592,"date":"2016-05-16T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b1f66eb407851da742b5d8b1ae43b39a"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:28:18","slug":"news-story-julie-swan-appointed-executive-director-for-general-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70592","title":{"rendered":"News story: Julie Swan appointed Executive Director for General Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Julie was appointed as the Acting Executive Director when her predecessor, Ian Stockford, left Ofqual in December. Following a recruitment process, she has accepted the offer of a permanent position.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Regulator Sally Collier said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am very pleased to announce Julie\u2019s appointment. She has provided strong leadership over the past six months and I am delighted that she is now joining Ofqual\u2019s executive team on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Julie will lead our General Qualifications directorate into a busy summer that will include awarding the first new AS levels. She will also bring significant experience as we begin the process to accredit reformed GCSE, AS and A level submissions for first teaching in September 2017.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Julie has worked for Ofqual for seven years and was most recently our Associate Director for Regulatory Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Swan said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m very happy to be able to continue the work I\u2019ve done so far within the directorate. I appreciate that there are significant challenges ahead as we continue to reform GCSEs, AS and A levels and I am looking forward to working through those with colleagues and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual is today (16 May 2016) announcing the appointment of Julie Swan as 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\/70592"}],"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=70592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}