But the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) says fewer appeals resulted in changed grades.

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Further up the road, another education quango, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, is also being abolished.

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The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency faces efficiency savings - and its long-term future will be decided later this year.

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It also abolishes a number of education quangos, including the the QCDA (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency), which Mr Blunkett described as "very worrying factor".

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I'd been happily working for the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) for just over two years when, at 15:00 on 27 May 2010, a hastily arranged staff briefing was held in our shiny new offices.

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