Who holds your records?
We hold records for exams taken with us and our predecessor boards
Below is the list of our predecessor boards:
JMB - Joint Matriculation Board
NEAB - Northern Examinations and Assessment Board
NEA - Northern Examining Association
AEB - Associated Examining Board
SEG - Southern Examining Group
ALSEB - Association Lancashire Schools Examinations Board
NREB - North Regional Examinations Board
NWREB - North West Regional Examinations Board
TWYLREB - The West Yorkshire and Lindsey Regional Examinations Board
YHREB - Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Examinations Board
YREB - Yorkshire Regional Examinations Board
NWSSEB - North West Secondary Schools Examinations Board
SEREB - South Eastern Regional Examinations Board
SWREB - South West Regional Examinations Board. CSE (Certificate of Secondary Education) 1965 – 1987
CSE exams (1965-1987) were administered by regional exam boards, records are now held according to the area the school was based in. We can only confirm CSE results taken with our predecessor boards:
Awarding Original CSE board Regions covered organisation now holding records
Associated Lancashire Metropolitan Districts of Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford and parts of Derbyshire. Also some Scottish Schools Exam Board schools.
North Regional Cleveland (part) Durham and Northumberland, Districts of Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, South Examinations Board Tyneside and Sunderland.
Cheshire, Lancashire, Isle of Man, Parts of Cumbria, the Metropolitan Districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, North West Regional Board Wirral, Bury, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington and Wigan. Also some Northern Ireland schools. AQA Manchester Tel:0800 197 7162 (or Yorkshire and Humberside +44 203 671 8010 Regional Examinations North Yorkshire and Humberside, Metropolitan Districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, from outside the UK) Board & The West Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield and parts of Cleveland, Lincolnshire, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, York, Halifax, Workington Yorkshire and Lindsey and Middlesborough. Also some Lincolnshire border areas. Regional Exam Board
East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, South East/South West Sutton, Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Exeter, Somerset and Wiltshire. Also some Middlesex and some West Regional Exam Board Sussex border areas.
Awarding Original CSE board Regions covered organisation now holding records
Southern Regional Exams Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Channel Islands and schools Board overseas. OCR (MEG) Tel: 01223 553 998 East Midlands/West Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Hereford & Worcester, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Midlands Exam Board Warwickshire and the districts of Grimsby, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
London and East Anglian/London Regional/Metropolitan Exams/Middlesex Exams Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, London Boroughs of Berking, Barnet, Boards. Edexcel Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston, Merton, Newham, The London Regional Board Tel: 0845 618 0440 Richmond, Sutton, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. came from a merger between the Metropolitan and Middlesex Boards in 1979.
Welsh Joint Education WJEC All of Wales. Committee Tel: 01222 575 994
Other awarding organizations your records may be with
Other main exam boards for school exams Qualification
Edexcel ULEAC, B-TEC, LEAG, TEC, BEC, JCBSPA, LREB, M&MREB, UESEC, ULSEB, HND, ONC/OND, EAEB and some ESOL. Also Edexcel CSEs in East Anglia and some London Boroughs. Tel: 0845 618 0440 Email:[email protected]
OCR MEG, O&C, UCLES, UODLES, OCEAC, OCSEB, RSA, CPVE, EAEB, EMREB, SREB, SUHB, WMEB, CPVE and the ocr.org.uk Southern Universities Joint Board. Also CSEs in the Midlands, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Isle of Wight, Tel: 0300 456 2486 W Sussex, Channel Islands and overseas. Email: [email protected]
WJEC wjec.co.uk Tel: 0292 026 5000 WJEC qualifications and Joint RSA. Email: [email protected]
Other awarding organisations Qualification
CACHE cache.org.uk Council for awards in Care, Health and Education. CEYA and NNEB (Nursery Nursing Qualifications). Tel: 0172 781 8616
Cambridge International Exams Holds Cambridge International Exams in A-Level, AS-Level, O-Level and IGCSE for international centres. cie.org.uk
CCEA ccea.org.uk NISEAC (Northern Ireland Schools Examinations Council) and NISEC (Northern Ireland Schools Examinations and Tel: 0289 026 1200 Assessment Council). Email: [email protected]
ULCI (Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes), NWRAC (North Western Regional Advisory Council) and Catering NVQs. CENTRA You may need to contact the local council in Preston, the National Archives or the Northwest Regional Association of Education Authorities for more information.
City & Guilds cityandguilds.com NVQ (National Vocational Qualification), Modern Apprenticeships, GNVQ and various other vocational qualifications. Tel: 0844 543 0000
NCFE NCTEC ("Northern Counties"), Northern Union of Mechanics' Institutes (NUMI), Northern Advisory Council for Further ncfe.org.uk Education (NACFE). Tel: 0191 239 8000
NOCN/OCN National Open College Network (variety of accredited qualifications including Access to Higher Education). Grade equivalency and validation agents Qualification
OUVS OUVS (Open University Validation Services) has taken open.ac.uk responsibility for the maintenance and access to CNNA Tel: 01908 332 840/852 (Council for National Academic Achievement) records.
Other awarding organisations Qualification nocn.org.uk Tel: 01924 434 600
SQA sqa.org.uk Tel: 0345 279 1000 Scottish qualifications. Email: [email protected] Tel: 0871 330 7033