Ofqual Fines Cambridge English £875,000 Following IELTS Automated Marking Errors
Hamlets Training Centre2026-06-11T23:14:45+01:00Ofqual Fines Cambridge English £875,000 Following IELTS Automated Marking Errors By Hamlets Desk The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has imposed a financial penalty of £875,000 on Cambridge English after identifying automated marking errors that affected thousands of candidates who took the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examination. According to Ofqual, the marking issue remained undetected for more than two years and resulted in incorrect scores being issued to candidates who sat IELTS examinations between August 2023 and September 2025. IELTS is one of the world's most widely recognised English-language qualifications and is commonly used for university admissions, [...]

