| T Level | September 2025 Update |
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Welcome to September’s T Level Update, your first for this academic year and we've got everything you need to know to get the year off to a great start.
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. |
Join us for our annual exams officer and administrator training event on 4 November, 12.00–13.00.
This online event is for anyone involved in the administration of the Technical Qualification, covering everything from undertaking provider approval to making registrations and entries and assessment scheduling.
Exams officer training for T Levels
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You can now make new registrations on the Technical Qualification for your cohorts starting this academic year.
The deadline to make your registrations is 1 November. Late fees will apply to registrations received from 2 November onwards.
Need help? You’ll find guides to making registrations and managing student details on our admin support page.
You must be approved by Pearson for each Technical Qualification you plan to deliver. If you didn’t apply for approval during the approval window (February–June 2025), please contact us as soon as possible. |
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You can now make your core component entries for the autumn series. You must make an entry for every student wishing to enter the assessment. If you're making resit entries, make sure you’re familiar with the resit rules.
The deadline to make your entries is 5 October. Late fees will apply to entries received from 6 October onwards.
Need help? You'll find guides and videos on making and managing entries and assessments, results and re-sits on our admin support page. |
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Once you’ve made your entries, you can expect to start receiving question papers, attendance registers and labels for the autumn series from Monday 17 November.
The yellow label service will be in place for this series for you to return scripts.
If you need electronic copies of question papers — for example, if you make a very late entry or need to print onto coloured paper — you’ll be able to download them from the BTEC and T Level assessment download page. You'll need Secure Download Service access on your Edexcel Online account to access secure material. |
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You can now make your occupational specialism entries for the summer 2026 series. You must make an entry for every student wishing to enter the assessment.
The deadline to make your entries is 5 October. Late fees will apply to entries received from 6 October onwards. |
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We’ve refreshed our training and admin support page, making it easier for you to find the help you need when you need it.
You can find admin support, training resources, provider FAQs, support from industry professionals and more, all in one place.
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If you offer post-16 Level 2 study programmes at your centre, you might be interested in Pearson’s Level 2 BTEC qualifications.
Join our webinar on 14 October, where we’ll walk you through the current BTEC portfolio and the potential changes as post-16 qualification reforms continue.
Post- 16 Level 2 BTEC landscape for 2025 onward
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We are working on some new support materials to be available by the end of September:
- Guidance from the principal examiner to help improve core exam performance based on past years’ experience.
- The Guide to Core Content Depth will be updated to include the Generation 2 specification content.
We will hold our annual content review of the specification and assessments soon. We don’t expect there to be many changes, given the recent updates to Generation 2 TQ; however, we are keen to hear from you if you identify any serious issues, or errors, with the specification – please email gabriel.staples@pearson.com
A reminder that 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, is available for students commencing from September 2025, with the first assessments in 2027. We expect to have the updated specification published later this month.
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 delivering for the first time this September, make sure to check out all the support we offer, including delivery guides, schemes of work, specimen assessments and guide standard exemplification materials. You’ll find these and more on each qualification's course materials page:
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Training
Join our live Getting Ready to Teach training events this month:
If you can’t attend the live training, don’t worry, you can watch the recordings of past sessions:
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Craft and Design: updated specimen assessment materials available now
We have updated the specimen assessment materials (SAMS) for the occupational specialism assessments in the T Level in Craft and Design. Revisions apply to SAMs, mark schemes and relevant templates for both tasks in all specialisms and will be carried through to the live assessments. Please make sure you've downloaded the latest versions of all these documents. |
The student registration window for the three Generation 2 Digital T Levels is now open. |
| 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 were approved by Pearson to deliver the Generation 1 T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development, you have automatic approval to deliver its Generation 2 replacement, the T Level in Digital Software Development. This does not mean you also automatically have approval to deliver Digital Support and Security or Digital Data Analytics.
If you were approved by NCFE to deliver the Generation 1 T Levels in Digital Support Services, and/or Digital Business Support and are now transitioning to the Generation 2 versions, you must gain provider approval from Pearson before starting teaching.
Want to know more about migrating from Generation 1 to Generation 2 T Levels?
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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| 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. 14 October 3–4 p.m. | Book your place
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 launched the first set of support materials in July, joining the curriculum guides and mapping documents already available on the website. More materials will follow later this month and over the autumn term.
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 launched 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 during September and throughout the autumn. |
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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
Join our upcoming progress webinars to hear about the progress on these new TQs, get guidance on preparing to transition in September 2026 and take the opportunity to share your feedback with us.
Bookmark the T Level Health and Science pages so you can keep up to date with updates to these qualifications as they happen:
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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.
CILEX have proposed a webinar for providers on placements and support on 24 September. We’ll share more details with you once we have them. |
Finance:
Improvements to the occupational specialism
We’ve updated the T Level in 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. 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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Join us and our partners at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) for a webinar on 1 October, where CIM will discuss the benefits this partnership will bring to your Marketing students, progression opportunities, CIM exemptions, professional recognition, enriched learning resources and more.
Engage directly with the Pearson team and CIM , ask your questions, and explore how this initiative can help your students flourish in their marketing journey.
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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