Our latest updates

 October 2025

[Updated 08/10/2025]

News for all T Level providers

Key dates and important actions 

Remember to register your new students before Saturday 1 November  

You need to register your new cohort of students before Saturday 1 November. For any registrations after this date, you’ll be charged a late registration fee (from Sunday 2 November until Tuesday 23 December) or a very late registration fee (from Wednesday 24 December until Friday 31 July), in line with our fees and pricing guide.  

Please see below registration fees from 1 August 2025: 

• T Level Technical Qualification in Education and Early Years - £375.00 

• T Level Technical Qualification in Health - £131.50 

• T Level Technical Qualification in Healthcare Science - £149.50 

• T Level Technical Qualification in Science - £162.00 

Late registration or registration amendment - £21.00 Very late registration or registration amendment - £42.50  
 
You won’t be unable to register students for the 2025-26 session after Friday 31 July 2026. Take a look at our T Level Portal User Guide.  
 
You won’t be able to register students for the 2025-26 session after Friday 31 July 2026. Take a look at our T Level Portal User Guide for instructions on how to register students.   
Please see our Key Dates Schedule for full details of key dates throughout the year. If you require any additional information, please contact our Assessment Delivery team via email at [email protected].   

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Annual Monitoring Review (AMR): complete your self-assessment form  

Once you’ve made your registrations, your Quality Reviewer (QR) will reach out to confirm the date of your AMR this session. They will provide your quality contact with a link to the self-assessment form. Please complete and return this form within 10 working days. 

The self-assessment form asks you to:  

• detail any policies or procedures that have been updated or changed since your last AMR, or since your approval review if you are a new provider 

• confirm which T Level qualifications you’re delivering this session 

• confirm that you have the correct staff, work placements, and physical resources to support delivery.  

If you’re a newly approved T Level provider and haven’t yet made registrations, please do so as soon as possible and no later than Saturday 1 November. Once you’ve registered your students we’ll allocate a Quality Reviewer who will plan your AMR and send you a link to a self-assessment form, which must be completed and returned within 10 working days.  

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Key dates for the autumn 2025 series and details on advanced assessment materials 

The autumn series each year is aimed at resitting students from the previous series, or for those who decoupled and did not sit all components in the summer of their year one, who wish to complete their core component ahead of the summer of year two. An autumn series is not suitable for first year students, as there is insufficient time for delivery of course content between starting in September and sitting the assessments in November.  

Please add the following key dates to your diary for the Employer Set Project (ESP) assessment windows and booking cut offs for the autumn 2025 series. But remember, these are the bookings deadlines, and we would always recommend bookings for resitting students this autumn series be made as soon as possible.     

Advanced assessment materials 

Each year we carry out a provider consultation about the dates and processes related to our Key Dates Schedule. This year, you said that you’d like us to provide more detailed information around key dates relating to advanced assessment materials. These are the assessment materials which are shared with providers or students in advance of the start of the assessment window, such as Tutor Guides, or, in some cases, pre-assessment activities for students.    

In response to your feedback, we've produced a new document which shows when advanced assessment materials will be available, as well as who can access them and when. Download the autumn 2025 document.  

Please note that live assessment materials (hard copies or downloaded electronic PDF versions) will be available three working days before the start date of the assessment or assessment window.  

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Summer 2026 - Occupational Specialism bookings for second-year T Level students  

Please remember that you need to book your second-year students onto their chosen Occupational Specialism (OS) for the summer 2026 assessment series by the dates below at the latest. These are the final deadlines for booking, so we encourage you to make bookings as soon as possible, rather than waiting until the cut-off date.  

This is particularly important for T Level Education and Early Years (603/5829/4), as timely bookings are required to ensure that a visiting moderator can be allocated. 

Please follow the booking instructions in the T Level Portal Guide. 

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Returning papers via the yellow label service 

T Level core exam papers A and B should be returned via the yellow label service. Please remember that if you have assessments taking place on days where you don’t have daily scheduled collections (May-June only), you’ll need to book an ad hoc collection to return these exam papers.    

Contact Parcelforce Worldwide’s exams helpdesk to book your ad-hoc collection online or call the helpdesk on 0344 561 7998.  

You must prepare for this collection by packing all assessment materials (including completed papers only and the invigilators’ register) into the grey envelopes you received with the papers. Please then store these in a secure location within your centre until they’re collected by ParcelForce Worldwide.   

Yellow label returns must be arranged according to the steps outlined above and mustn’t be dropped off at the local Post Office, as this increases the risk of parcels getting lost. Read more. 

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Share your feedback 

Provider annual review: we need your feedback 

To ensure T Levels remain at the forefront of education, we have them reviewed by industry representatives and providers each year. This ensures our qualifications remain valid and reflective of current industry practice.    

As part of this process, we’d welcome your feedback on the following T Level technical qualifications:  

• Health (603/7066/X)  

• Healthcare Science (603/7083/X)  

• Science (603/6989/9)  

• Education and Early Years (603/5829/4) (Generation 1)  

Please complete the survey before Friday 28 November to share your thoughts. Thank you to everyone who completed our survey on the Education and Early Years qualification (Generation 2) last month. 

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Updates from the Department for Education (DfE) 

Department for Education (DfE) update to T Level funding from 2027-28   
The DfE has updated their T Levels Funding Guide 2025 to 2026 to confirm a change to the funding methodology from the 2027 to 2028 academic year onwards.  
  
Key points to be aware of:  

• for 2025-26 and 2026-27, the funding methodology will stay the same 

• from 2027-28, initial allocations will be based solely on student numbers from the start of the previous academic year (as returned in your ILR R04 or autumn school census) 

• institutions will no longer need to submit estimated student numbers to inform allocations 

• there will also be no T Level registration application process for providers planning to introduce T Levels from 2027-28 

• an in-year reconciliation process will continue, to account for any over or under delivery.  

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Supporting higher education providers with T Levels    
The DfE has updated their guidance for higher education providers (mainly universities) to help them understand T Levels and how they fit with admissions. It’s useful to be aware of this guidance to help with progression conversations with your students. Read the full update. 

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Training and events 

Standardisation training  

We’ve listened to your feedback, and standardisation training materials will now be available directly on our website instead of on our Portal. We’ve made this change to make access to these materials quicker and easier for you.  

The materials are available to download from each T Level qualification page, by navigating to the provider standardisation section, which is located within the ‘Support Materials’ tab.  

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Administration training  

Administration training materials are available on our moderation page to support your teams in preparing for the 2025-26 assessment window.  

The training consists of a series of short videos covering essential processes, including:  

• how to access assessment materials 

• how to submit provider marks for moderation 

• how to view students selected for moderation and upload evidence. 

We recommend all colleagues involved in assessment administration view these videos regularly to ensure you remain confident and up to date with moderation requirements.  

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T Level Celebration Week 

From Monday 13 to Friday 17 October: celebrating T Level success!  

We’re supporting T Level Celebration Week and we’d encourage you and your students to get involved. Share your stories and put the spotlight on your students’ successes, as well as celebrating your colleagues and placement partners who make T Level pathways possible. Download the toolkit from the DfE and visit our social media channels next week to see some of the stories we’re sharing. 

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Keep your contact details up to date 

To ensure we can reach the right colleagues with important updates, please notify us of any staff changes by using our online form.