A student on the evening programme in the 90s had to go to Istanbul on business last minute so she was going to miss the exam. Told me how much she wanted to do the exam as she’d put in so much work and didn’t want to wait until the re-sit in August — no tuition after end of school year in June so she’d get rusty. Asked if I could find a solution.
I suddenly came up with this idea: go and sit the exam at the British Embassy invigilated by a staff member. We’d just send the paper over, the embassy is a perfectly trustworthy authority for invigilating an exam. The only problem might be if she had a query about the contents but I could be on duty in London for that, i.e., be ready to take a phone call if she had one. So, all angles covered.
The embassy agreed to this, and it went smoothly. And I was saved the hassle of having to set a re-sit just for one person.
(London, 1996?7?)
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