T Level | July 2025 Update |
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Welcome to July'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. |
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:
- aggregating and issuing the overall T Level result via their Manage T-Level results service, including results from the two Technical Qualification components and the completion of the industry placement
- issuing T Level certificates and statements of achievement
- reporting T Level grades to UCAS.
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If you're currently delivering Generation 1 T Levels in Construction and/or Digital, and therefore moving to the Generation 2 specifications in September 2025, there will be a period of parallel running, either with the delivery of two specifications with the same awarding organisation or working with two different awarding organisations.
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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.
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Making assessments more manageable
Thanks to your feedback, we’re making assessments more manageable from next year:
- There will be a much longer window to complete the practical surveying task (facade survey)
- There will be a longer gap between core exam papers 1 and 2, giving learners more time to revise for the topics in each paper.
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Support your T Level delivery with CITB
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.
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If you're preparing to start delivery for the first time this September, make sure to check out all the free support we offer, including delivery guides, schemes of work, sample assessments and guide standard exemplification materials. You’ll find these and more on each qualification's course materials page:
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 |
Training
If you missed our live training in June, don’t worry, you can watch the recordings of past sessions:
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We’re recruiting!
Interested in working with us as a T Level examiner? Read the descriptions and apply to join us:
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The three new Digital qualifications have been approved by IfATE and Ofqual have issued their qualification aim numbers (QAN). |
Generation 2 T Level |
QAN |
Digital Software Development (with the OS retitled to match the standard as Digital Software Development) |
610/5801/4 |
Digital Support and Security |
610/5799/X |
Digital Data Analytics (with the OS retitled to match the standard as Data Analytics Technician) |
610/5800/2 |
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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, along with specimen assessment materials for the core exams. We’ll release more materials over the coming months; here’s a rough schedule of what to expect when: |
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July 2025 |
Employer set project specimen assessment materials |
September 2025 |
Occupational specialism specimen assessment materials |
October 2025 |
Additional specimen assessment materials: core exams Guide standard exemplification materials: employer set project Guide standard exemplification materials: occupational specialism |
November 2025 |
Additional specimen assessment materials: employer set project |
December 2025 |
Additional specimen assessment materials: occupational specialism |
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Digital Production, Design and Development/Digital Software Development
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.
Curious how you can use Netacad to enhance your teaching and prepare for assessments? We’re running a joint webinar with Cisco on 14 October, so join us then to find out more.
- Pearson/Cisco Digital Software Development webinar
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. |
Digital Support and Security/ Digital Support Services
We'll launch the first set of support materials in July, joining the curriculum guides and mapping documents already available on the website.
Curious how you can use Netacad to enhance your teaching and prepare for assessments? We’re running a joint webinar with Cisco on 30 September, so join us then to find out more.
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Digital Data Analytics/Digital Business Services
We'll launch the first set of support materials in July, joining the curriculum guides and mapping documents already available on the website. 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. |
Legal Services:
We have resources to support your delivery, including schemes of work for the core and occupational specialism components, exemplar materials for the employer set project, and a content overview for Core Paper 2.
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Finance:
Improvements to the occupational specialism
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.
Support from The Chartered Insurance Insitute
Our partner The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has a dedicated T Levels page to support you.
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Accounting:
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.
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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 Technical Qualification specification is now available 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.
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Our training and admin support page gathers everything you need to deliver your T Level.
- On-demand training such as Getting to Know the Specification, Employer Set Project training, Keeping it Simple materials, and our termly policy update.
- T Level live training where you can search for events and book Q&A networks, Getting Ready to Teach events, Getting Ready to Assess events.
- Our training archive collects recordings of past events if you are unable to attend any of our live training sessions or want to listen again.
- Administration documents and support, including key dates schedules, Provider approval guidance, administration support guides for assessment, videos to support making registrations and entries, understanding resit rules, and much more.
- Teaching support materials are padlocked, meaning they require an Edexcel Online account to access them. If you don't have Edexcel Online access, please speak to your centre exams officer.
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If you need specific support with your T Level, our subject advisors are here to help. You can book a 15-minute one-to-one call where you can discuss any issue you are having with regards to planning or delivery of your T Level.
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