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Welcome to June's T Level Update.

We send these updates out to everyone who signs up for them. If you’re no longer the right person in your centre to receive these, please ask the relevant colleagues to sign up for T level updates to make sure they receive them directly to their inbox. 

You have until 30 June to apply for approval to start delivering T Levels in September 2025. You must gain approval for each Technical Qualification you wish to deliver.

Please watch our provider approval video before starting your application process.

You can find support documents and approval forms on our training and admin support page.

If you have any questions about provider approval, please contact us via the Pearson support portal.

You want your students to feel prepared for their core exams, and we’ve got everything you need to help. We've made a collection of short videos covering topics such as annual planning, preparation, and improvement, understanding command words, preparing students, and understanding re-sits.

All the materials are generic, so you can use them to support any of the T Levels delivered by Pearson.

You can find the core exam support and preparation videos on our training and admin support page, under the “on-demand training” heading.

Watch our core exam support videos

As part of our responsibility for delivering the Technical Qualification, we issue results for the core component (the core exams and employer set project) and the occupational specialism.

We'll send component results to exams officers’ Edexcel Online mailboxes on 13 August 2025. These will consist of statements of results (one PDF per student) and a broadsheet of results for all students at the centre across all Technical Qualification components. The release of these component results to students is embargoed until 14 August 2025.

We will transfer all component results to the DfE, who are responsible for:

For more information, explore the DfE’s T Levels support for schools and colleges or contact DfE directly.

If you have any questions about the Manage T Level results service, you can contact tlevel.resultsandcertification@education.gov.uk.

The Generation 2 specification for teaching from September 2025 is now available.

Watch a recording of our provider event introducing the 2025 specification to learn what’s new.

A new occupational specialism, Project Delivery for Construction, will be available for new students, with the first assessments planned from 2027. This specification won’t be published until later this year; however, you can have early sight on request and/or via contributing to our Provider Panel.

If you’re moving from BTEC Nationals in Construction to the T Level, use our transition guide to help you map BTEC National units to the core content areas. You can find the guide on the course materials page.

Pearson has been working with the Gatsby Foundation to provide high quality teaching resources for several topics in the Core: Law, Maths and Modern Methods of Construction. Keep an eye on the Gatsby Technical Education Networks website.

Need support for employers? Whether you already have relationships with employers or you’re trying to encourage employers to take students on placement, the CITB have great support to help.

To help your delivery and give you more contingency time for potential absences or delays, we've amended the occupational specialism assessment window for both Craft and Design and Media Broadcast and Production. There are updated 2024–2026 and 2025–2027 schedules, so ensure you have both.

Download your updated key dates schedules

Sign up for live Getting Ready to Teach training events running in June on our events page, or you can watch the recordings of past sessions:

Interested in working with us as a T Level examiner? Read the descriptions and apply to join us:

The three new Digital qualifications have been approved by IfATE and Ofqual have issued their qualification aim numbers (QAN).

You’ll need to apply for provider approval if you’re planning to deliver these new qualifications from September 2025. Refer to our guide to provider approval on our training and admin support page to check if you’re eligible for automatic approval.

If you’ve been waiting for a provider approval decision, don’t worry. We had to pause provider approval applications until Ofqual issued QANs; now we have them, we can resume processing applications.

If you're migrating from Generation 1 to Generation 2 T Levels, we've put together some additional FAQs to help you.

The new specifications are available on the website and the specimen assessment materials will be available week commencing 9 June. If you’d like to have your say in how these T Levels evolve, please email andrew.hambelton@pearson.com and ask to join the provider panel.

Our development podcast series is available now and we'll be following the series up with support podcasts soon.

We've worked with Cisco and their Networking Academy on teaching resources for Python and other programming languages used in the occupational specialism. It's free to sign up and become a Cisco Networking Academy centre.

Gatsby are continuing the rollout the Digital T Level support created by industry experts like Raspberry Pi and our own examiners to support your delivery. For information, keep an eye on Gatsby's website.

We will be launching the first set of support materials in June as well as curriculum guides and mapping documents. In the autumn we will also be running a joint webinar with Cisco to look at how you can use Netacad to enhance your teaching and prepare for the ESP and OS assessments. Sign up for these events will be available on our training page later in June.

We’ll launch the first set of support materials in June, as well as curriculum guides and mapping documents. We’ll keep sharing more support materials over the summer and throughout the autumn.

These Generation 2 T Levels will be delivered by Pearson from September 2026. This will not affect your 2024 or 2025 intake; those students will complete their T level with NCFE.

By adding these T Levels to your curriculum, you’ll be meeting the growing demand from industry, broadening your course options and attracting students excited about high-quality vocational qualifications. 

We'd love you to join our provider panel and share your opinions about the content, the structure and manageability of the assessments, and anything else you feel would be useful as we refresh both Technical Qualifications. To join, please email Andrew Hambelton at andrew.hambleton@pearson.com.

We’ve made some changes to the T Level Finance occupational specialisms to help make assessment clearer and more efficient.

We will no longer be providing pre-release materials. This change is designed to streamline your preparation process, ensuring all necessary information is included within the main assessment documents.

Tasks that were previously split into separate documents (e.g., Task A and Task B) will now be combined into a single task booklet. This adjustment aims to simplify the administration and handling of assessment materials.

We’ve uploaded updated administrative support guides to reflect these changes, and these are available to download from our course materials page, along with curriculum planners.

Explore the resources on the course materials page.

Support from The Chartered Insurance Insitute

Our partner The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has a dedicated T Levels page to support you.

Find out more about the CII support for T Levels.

ACCA continue to offer to support to your T Level Accounting students with their progression and employability, as well as employer introductions, Sage discounts and careers in accountancy events.

For more information, contact Rob Alder at ACCA; rob.alder@accaglobal.com.

We have partnered with The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to support Providers and students.  You can find out about the exemptions we have agreed to align with the CIM Level 3 qualifications and membership to their new Marketing Club on our website.

Find out more about our partnership with CIM

The specification is on our website and the getting to know the specification on-demand training is available on our training and admin page.

The delivery guide and schemes of work are available to download from the course materials page.

Finally, we’d love you to join our upcoming Getting Ready to Teach: T Level in Marketing (Core component) event.

Our training and admin support page gathers everything you need to deliver your T Level.

Bookmark our training and admin support page and explore the resources on offer.