• Fairness and high standards in qualifications and tests
• A new regulatory approach
• A levels and GCSEs
• Keeping exam fees fair
• Improving access for all
• Ensuring the integrity of coursework
• GCSEs and International GCSEs compared
• Regulating national curriculum assessments
• National Database of Accredited Qualifications

As a regulator, I want all the qualifications and assessments we regulate to command confidence - the confidence of learners, their families, schools, colleges, employers, universities and the wider public. Where there are problems or concerns, we will investigate and give the public an accurate account of the position and what we are doing to put matters right. Last year, we committed QCA to a strategic approach to regulation which relates our interventions to risk and encourages innovation and good practice. This section of QCA's annual review describes actions that we have taken to put this approach into practice: by developing new regulatory principles for e-assessment; by addressing concerns about the integrity of coursework; and by recommendations to improve the transparency of price structures for some qualifications. In future we will use a risk-based approach to make sure that we focus our monitoring resources where they are most needed.

I hope that awarding bodies see QCA as a fair, consistent and transparent regulator, intervening where action is required at a national level, and one that genuinely adds value. We need to trust those we regulate and create an environment in which they can innovate to benefit learners.

More about QCA as a regulator can be found at regulation. Working with our regulatory partners in Wales and Northern Ireland, we look forward to making sure that the new qualifications under development and existing accredited qualifications continue to deserve our stamp of approval and the public's confidence.

Isabel Nisbet, Director of Regulation and Standards