AQA is an education charity. With 120 years of assessment expertise and knowledge, it's the most chosen general qualifications (GQ) awarding body in England.
AQA designs, creates and delivers rigorous and fair assessment to more than one million students every year.
We're more than an exam board. By placing customers front and centre, and using our world-class research and expertise, we not only stay relevant in the assessment world, we define it.
AQA believes that everyone has a fundamental right for their learning to be recognised, and that fair and inclusive assessment is at the heart of this.
We have over a century of qualifications expertise dating back to 1903 when our predecessor boards were founded by five leading universities. These public exam boards came into existence to provide an opportunity for young people from a range of backgrounds to access education and make the most of their potential.
This commitment to social mobility remains at the heart of AQA’s charitable purpose, which is to advance education by enabling teachers and students to realise their potential.
We demonstrate this by providing qualifications that enable students to progress, and reinvesting any surplus we make in:
