The exam board Edexcel isn’t covering itself in glory this week. Yesterday we reported how the board failed hundreds of teenage students because their work was submitted in the wrong format. Now, a teacher’s been in touch to reveal an alarming lack of know-how from the board’s so-called IT “Experts”.

Puzzled by an Edexcel paper that demanded his pupils produce a document containing ”a short graphic file from the internet”, our man sent a letter to the board’s experts to find out exactly what they meant.

Here’s the Expert’s reply:

I think it means small graphic file and the intention was probably purely practical to avoid learners bringing in very large files that then gave difficulties in managing or storing the final document. I don’t think that it is a critical verb and that learners should not be failed because they brought in slightly taller (ie larger) files.

It’s nice to know our kids are in such expert hands, isn’t it?