Ofqual collects and reports information on the total number of incidents of malpractice in the GCSE, AS and A level summer examination series in England. The data is sourced from the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation and is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics. The last update for this dataset was recorded on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in exam malpractice based on total incident counts reported by awarding organizations.
- Monitor the integrity of national examination systems based on aggregated malpractice data.
- Benchmark malpractice rates across different summer examination series for GCSE, AS, and A levels.
Strengths
- Data is collected and reported by the official regulator, Ofqual, ensuring an authoritative source.
- Focuses on a specific and critical aspect of education system integrity: exam malpractice.
Limitations
- No geographic breakdown of the data is currently published, limiting spatial analysis.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)
- Collection Method
- Awarding organisations must investigate and issue penalties for malpractice; Ofqual collects and reports the aggregated information.
- Time Range
- Covers the summer examination series.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:42.285592; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England