Bookings

We’re pleased to share with you that the NCFE Portal will be available for you to use, with full functionality, from Monday 9 February.

The only change that you may notice is that the Portal will only be available from 6am until 10pm GMT (rather than 24/7), to allow us to actively monitor the platform.

Withdrawal of interim processes from 5pm on Monday 2 February.

As a result, this interim process to complete bookings will be available until 5pm on Monday 2 February and will then close, to ensure we have enough time to validate your data and process any remaining requests before the Portal is back online.

With this in mind, please submit your forms and supporting documentation before this deadline, or alternatively, wait until the Portal is live again on 9 February.

To support you while the Portal is offline, we have set up this web form to replicate the process you would go through to complete bookings for controlled assessments for Functional Skills and external assessments for CACHE qualifications and Functional Skills. 

1. Please download and use the booking CSV template

2. Have your centre number to hand as you’ll need this to submit the web form and for password protection

3. Take your time to double check that you’ve inputted all the relevant data fields and included all relevant learners – a single web form submission will ensure much quicker processing time by our internal team.

4. If you are booking a Functional Skills controlled assessment please see the list of assessment topics the topic will need to be added to the relevant column in the booking template.

5. Please password protect the booking CSV file with your centre number (see below for advice on how to password protect a file), complete the web form, attach the CSV file and click submit.

All previous rules and deadlines relating to external assessments are still in place. Forms will be reviewed before processing, and should our teams have any queries, we’ll get in contact with you before making the booking. 

Useful links:

Reasonable adjustment/ paper modification

External Assessment Timetable

Key dates and timetables

T Level Key Dates Schedule