Below you’ll find your monthly update for November 2024, including key upcoming dates for your diary for reasonable adjustments, post-results and assessment and delivery support, and more.
Please ensure to register your learners within 90 days of their start date to avoid late registration fees, and add your learners’ correct end dates at the point of registration.
From summer 2025 onwards, we’re bringing forward the completion date for EQA reviews to 30 June. To find out more about this or if you have any queries, please contact [email protected]. Please ensure that you get your EQA review booked in as soon as possible.
We’ve updated our assessment timetable for all CACHE and V Cert qualifications with assessments in 2024-25 and 2025-26. Click here to view the timetable and supporting documentation.
Sign up to delivery support events for V Certs from our Provider Development team, which provide opportunities for networking, and explore topics such as preparing to teach and preparing to assess.
Sign up for our November maths, English and Digital Skills CPD events, including angles and coordinates, effective communication skills and being safe and responsible online. You can also register for our Digital Functional Skills and Essential Digital Skills training events and drop-in clinics to answer any queries and support your onboarding.
We’ve got several upcoming Assessor and IQA training events, which provide a great opportunity to meet like-minded assessment and IQA professionals. Explore these to expand your knowledge and understanding of IQA, assessment, and our qualifications. Book onto our Assessor or IQA events today.
Our second NCFE Professional Development Week took place in July with recap sessions available here. Save the date for our third upcoming Professional Development Week - from 16-20 December - packed with useful sessions for your personal development.
We’re creating a series of bite-size videos to support exams colleagues, some of which are already available on our YouTube channel. These detail some common themes or areas of difficulty and will also provide updates about our Portal User Guide.
If you or your colleagues require support or guidance on using the Portal, please contact [email protected]. One of our team will help to signpost you to any guidance or can provide a demonstration.
You can find the upcoming post results deadlines for assessments for our CACHE and T Level qualifications in the Key Dates Schedule.
We understand that there are times when a student or provider feels that a result is at variance with their reasonable expectations. Therefore, there is a range of post-results options available to providers to support you and your students.
Requests for reviews of marking or access to scripts can be submitted by the provider on behalf of the student (with their consent), however before doing so, please ensure you’re familiar with our Enquiries about Results and Assessment Decisions Policy.
More information on post-results services can be found here.
Visit our assessment support page where you'll find everything you need to support you with assessment, including policies, forms and guidance on online assessment, remote invigilation, assessment and results queries, appeals, certificates, special considerations, access arrangements and reasonable adjustments, and much more.
Visit our delivery support page where we have over 1000 informative and engaging learning resources. Here, you'll find all you need to deliver our qualifications and support your learners.
View our Qualifications for Specific Delivery (QSID) document which provides qualification-specific instructions relating to the administration of external assessments for NCFE qualifications.
The Exams Office, in conjunction with their training partner Exams Training, offers a range of face-to-face training events delivered by industry experts, supported by high quality resources and held at 4/5-star venues across England. Events are available for:
Learn more about how you can keep up to date with your training
If you require a reasonable adjustment submission and/or paper modification, please ensure they’re booked before the below deadlines:
For more information on reasonable adjustments and how to submit an application, visit this page.
You can find the upcoming post results deadlines for assessments for our CACHE and T Level qualifications in the Key Dates Schedule.
