11th June Weekly Global News Update
from The Test Community.Network Hosted by Tim Burnett
Twenty stories this week. Here are the headlines. Surpass has dropped version 26.1 with AI-powered item search and automated similarity detection. Tim Burnett's vibe coding talk from the EAA AI Symposium is now live as a podcast — including a moat analysis of 29 assessment vendors. And Globebyte has launched an audit-ready AI assessment platform built on Anthropic, with EU AI Act compliance baked in. AI in marking remains a hot topic. Excelsoft compares India and the UK's approaches, while Turnitin shares insights from roundtables with The Open University, LSE, and others on shifting from AI policing to measuring learning integrity. Test security dominates this week. China is screening gaokao students' eyeglasses for hidden tech. Ofqual warns that smart glasses and earpieces are making cheating harder to detect. In India, biometric verification caught an exam impersonator during the UPESSC TGT exam, and the wider system faces scrutiny after the NEET paper leak. Ofqual is also monitoring the Edexcel A-level maths paper after 20,000 people petitioned calling it unfair. Coursera's microcredentials report finds 60% of employers would hire a less experienced candidate with a gen AI credential over a more experienced one without. That's worth sitting with. Two events for your diary: E-ATP in Rome, 7–9 October, and the EdTech Summit in Birmingham, 18–19 November. Full stories at testcommunity.network. Collection in full: https://testcommunity.network/collections/11th-june-2026-weekly-news-update
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