Our latest updates

 June 2025

Updated [11/06/2025]

News for all T Level providers 

Supporting you through the summer assessment series  

Please see our summer assessment series webpage for more information on reminders on social media sharing and risk of malpractice, and everything you need to know about the core exams. 

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Approvals deadline – Friday 27 June   

If you’d like to get approved for delivering additional T Levels from September 2025, please remember that the deadline is Friday 27 June. Read our FAQs for more information or join our virtual drop in clinic with our Provider Development team on Wednesday 18 June. 

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Generation 2 Education and Early Years specification now available 

Last week, we contacted our programme contacts and heads of centres at providers delivering Education and Early Years T Level to share details about the Generation 2 development and the new qualification specification. This specification will apply to any students entering their first year of this T Level in September 2025. Visit our webpage to learn more about the changes and read our FAQs.

To support you with the delivery of the Generation 2 specification and assessments, our Provider Development team will provide curriculum consultations, drop-in sessions, CPD events, webinars and bitesize recordings for tutors and assessors. These can be booked through our events webpage or curriculum consultation booking form.

Important update to the qualification specification for Generation 2 Education and Early Years T Level: 

When we released the qualification specification for the Generation 2 Education and Early Years T Level, this was issued as a draft while we worked with the Department for Education (DfE) and Skills England on a review of the guided learning hours (GLH) attributed to the placement of the Early Years Educator Occupational Specialism.

We’ve now had confirmation from DfE and Skills England that the policy and service requirements don’t permit the inclusion of GLH in the placement hours (outside of the 100 hours that are already included). To ensure that you have clarity on the GLH and total qualification time (TQT) requirements, we’ve updated our qualification specification. Please ensure you’ve downloaded the most up to date version of the specification (version 1.1). The qualification will remain within funding band 6.

We’ll continue to monitor GLH throughout the duration of the qualification lifecycle and work closely with stakeholders as part of this process.

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Reminder: updates to qualification materials 

We wanted to remind you that we’ve made some changes to our qualification materials for all of our T Levels, following our annual review. This includes new qualification specifications and sample assessment materials for Digital Business Services, Digital Support Services, Generation 1 Education and Early Years, Health, Healthcare Science and Science. Please ensure you download the new specifications and materials as soon as possible. Read more. 

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Supporting your delivery: resources, training and events 

Administration support  

Stay on track with upcoming tasks and deadlines using our visual timeline, which outlines key dates, submission requirements, and actions. Access it on our moderation webpage under ‘Planning your delivery’.   

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Upcoming events  

We have a full schedule of interactive and useful training events taking place over the next few months. Visit our events webpages for more information.  

Sign up for our half day virtual events:  

• Embedding assessment into T Level delivery, Wednesday 25 June: in this session, we’ll explore how to confidently interpret assessment criteria, plan purposeful formative assessment activities, and align them with curriculum intent. Sign up now. 

• T Level lessons learned, Friday 4 July: in this session, we’ll review the lessons learned on completion of the two-year programme. Sign up now. 

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Professional Development Week: sign up for the sessions now 

Our next Professional Development Week will take place from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July. This week will feature a range of virtual training sessions, workshops, and 'in conversation with' events, designed to enhance professional skills and provide valuable insights into the field. Our previous Professional Development Weeks have been attended by hundreds of educators, exams colleagues and senior leaders. 

You’ll have the opportunity to join live and recorded, free taster sessions on practical teaching strategies, innovative tools, and methods to engage students. This will be a useful introduction to some of our paid CPD events that will be taking place at a later date, so you can experience the content before signing up to the full session.  

Find out more and sign up to the sessions now.

Access teaching materials from Hachette Learning 

Visit our Hachette Learning webpage for resources to support your delivery of T Levels in Digital Business Services, Digital Support Services, Education and Early Years, Health, Healthcare Science and Science. 

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T Level fees for 2024-25 

As we look ahead to the new academic year, we want to let you know in advance about the changes we’re making to our T Level Technical Qualification fees for 2025-26, which have been approved by the DfE. Read more.  

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