Victoria’s curriculum authority board sacked after VCE exam bungle

The entire board of Victoria’s curriculum authority has been sacked after a review into the state’s VCE cheat sheet bungle last year.The blunder, during last year’s year 12 exams in Victoria, saw the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) accidentally publish exam content weeks before students sat for the tests. The review found the sample cover pages containing exam content had been viewed about 6,000 times.Sixty five tests – more than half of the VCE subjects – contained questions either identical or very similar to those contained in the seemingly blank practice exam cover sheets.‘Not acceptable’: accidental inclusion of year 12 exam content in VCE guides criticised by governmentRead moreThe review revealed there was “inadequate oversight” during the two-day rewriting process, which involved about 100 staff.The Victorian deputy premier and education minister, Ben Carroll, on Tuesday announced he had dismissed the entire board of the VCAA. An interim board will now lead...