The Conservatives are threatening to shut down the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency as part of a drive to save on public spending.
This school curriculum organisation is one of the quangos - quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - facing closure under a Tory government.
But this would only apply in England - and the proposal shows the diversity of the UK's exam and curriculum bodies.
As well as different authorities, there are major structural differences.
In England there are developing plans for a division of the curriculum authority from the watchdog which ensures the quality of exams.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, an adaptation of the current Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, is going to be the counterpart of the exams regulator, Ofqual.
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