Vocational Quality Assurance
Manager Newsletter
12 February 2026
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Dear colleague,
We know this is a busy time in the year for you, so this newsletter will help you focus on the key points for a successful month and on to summer certification.
If you have any questions about quality assurance, please contact the team via live chat or the Pearson Support Portal. If you're not already a member, join our QN Community where we share the latest information and you can network with other BTEC centres. |
- Ensure lead IVs are engaging with standards verifiers; first job is to send off the assessment plans.
- Check out our full schedule of live support events to help staff with all aspects of quality assurance and BTEC assessment rules.
- Contact your named VQAM for individualised quality assurance support – remember we offer the opportunity to meet via Teams using the Meet Your VQAM link.
- Complete the Higher Nationals APMR – find out more
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We’ve had a temporary reshuffle in the Vocational Quality Assurance Management team, so please check our coverage map to see which of us supports your area.
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Whether you’re a new or experienced quality nominee, our extensive portfolio of online events will keep you and your vocational delivery teams up to date and aware of the quality assurances processes required for a successful year. |
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We've published our full schedule of live support sessions for the rest of this academic year on our events and support page. Our on-demand CPD packages remain available to you for use at a time that suits you and your staff.
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We’ll be back on the road again soon, and we’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible at our network events. Please keep an eye on the events page in the coming weeks to see the dates and locations for our May, June and July networks. There is already a packed agenda planned and we can’t wait to share the latest developments with you. |
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Would you like to be part of the quality nominee customer voice panel to drive real change?
Whether it’s through quick online feedback or joining a termly Teams call, your insight can make a real difference.
No one knows the reality of delivering qualifications better than you. Your feedback helps us improve the support, systems, and services that matter most.
Sign up now and help shape what’s next |
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Standards verification is an integral part of our quality assurance model, and its timely completion will help ensure the successful release of student results.
Standards verifiers will contact you in the first instance to introduce themselves, their role and the sampling process. Please make sure you share this information with the relevant lead internal verifier(s), who will then be responsible for working with the standards verifier to get the process underway.
If your centre has multiple subsites under one main number, (e.g. 12345 A & B), you’ll be allocated one standards verifier across all subsites. If you operate sites with different centre numbers, each site may have a separate standards verifier allocation. If you’re part of a consortium arrangement, you’ll see a single standards verifier allocation across all the sites in the consortium.
The deadline to share samples with your standards verifier is 15 May, although we recommend that this takes place at the earliest opportunity. This will be agreed with your standards verifier upon review of the assessment plan(s), so do check in with the lead IVs and ensure that the document has been shared.
Remote samples for both Standard and Enhanced control measures must be submitted via the Learner Work Transfer platform, accessed via Edexcel Online.
We are here and ready to support you through this process. Contact us if you have any questions about the standards verification process, or if you have not yet received an SV allocation for any BTEC programme.
The updated Centre Guide to Standards Verification will provide all the information you need in terms of sampling requirements and please share the new bitesize videos to Standards Verification with your curriculum teams. |
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We’ve been lucky enough to meet many of our exams officer colleagues at their annual conferences around the country this month. Our sessions focused on the importance of the cohort declaration submission at the key checkpoints through the year, but more importantly, gave us the chance to meet and chat with exams officers about their work with Pearson. A big thanks to those that provided us with such rich feedback and came to our sessions. |
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The deadline to submit entries for the BTEC Tech Award summer series is 21 February.
Please work with your programme leaders and exams officers to ensure all entries have been made. |
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Kind regards ,
Helen, Bill, Liz & Sally
Vocational Quality Assurance Managers |
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