Our latest updates

September 2024

News for all T Level providers

Please scroll down for subject-specific information. 

Key dates

Key dates for the autumn 2024 Employer Set Project (ESP) including a reminder to register your students by 1 November.

Following on from provider consultation throughout 2023-24, we wanted to share the following key date information for the employer set project (ESP) and booking cut offs for the autumn 2024 series.

Remember to register your new students

You must register your new cohort of students before 1 November 2024. After this date, you’ll be charged a late registration fee or very late registration fee, in line with our fees and pricing policy. You’ll be unable to register students for the 2024-25 session after 31 July 2025. 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].

Support and resources:

Support for delivering NCFE T Levels

We look forward to working closely with you in the coming year to support you and your students to achieve the best T Level outcomes. We want to remind you about what we have in place to support you, including:

• regular communications you can expect from us
• the support and resources that’s available from NCFE.

Regular communications and our provider hub

• T Level provider hub: This is a central place on our website to access useful resources and information, including our Key Dates Schedule, events, resources and communications.
• Monthly provider newsletter and communications hub: We provide regular updates on this page and we’ll notify you when there are updates to this via our monthly T Level provider newsletter. Checking our communications hub regularly will ensure you can stay up to date with all the latest information and news.
• End-of-month round up email: This newsletter will share reminders from the last month and anything you might have missed. From time to time, we’ll send emails outside of our newsletters focused on important milestones, for example the upcoming assessment series.
• Keeping us up to date with the right contact in your organisation: If you’re not the most relevant person at your organisation to receive our emails, or you want to add anyone else to our email contact list, please let us know via [email protected].

Resources 

We have a wide range of targeted resources to support your delivery. These include:

• free materials such as schemes of work, sample papers, project briefs, mark schemes and more, and
• additional teaching resources that you can purchase.

We've recently updated the suite of materials and resources available, which can be accessed from the ‘Teaching materials’ tab on the relevant qualification pages on our website. View the full list of resources available.

You can also find information about resources from external specialists, including Gatsby Technical Education Projects and RCNi on our Provider hub.

Support from our Provider Development team

Our dedicated team of experienced teachers and subject specialists provides both general and bespoke support directly to you and your team.  You can access:

• events and webinars
• one-to-one curriculum consultations.

Further support

If you have queries about industry placements, please refer to the Department for Education’s guidance document. Visit this webpage for a list of universities that include T Levels in their entry requirements.

We look forward to working with you over the coming months but in the meantime, if you have any further queries relating to T Levels, please contact us via [email protected].

Have your say:

Complete our provider annual review surveys

To ensure that T Levels remain at the forefront of education, each year they’re reviewed by industry representatives and providers, so that they remain valid and reflective of current industry practice.

We’d like you to have your say and share your feedback with us to inform the review process. Click the links below to tell us your thoughts about our qualification content and learning resources. Please complete the surveys before 31 October 2024:

• annual review of qualifications content
• annual review of learning resources.

Take part in our delivery and assessment focus groups

We’d like to gather insight from you about the delivery and assessment of the T Levels in Digital, Education and Early Years, and Health, Healthcare Science and Science. The information gained will be used to inform our future support and CPD offer.

We’re inviting you and your colleagues to share your views with us as part of a virtual focus group. These will take place in the first term of 2024-25 and will run for approximately one hour each.

We’ll explore topics including:

• managing and getting the most out of industry placements
• the challenges of 'upscaling' and increasing student numbers
• how to prepare students for assessments.

We’ll also share the feedback we’ve received on T Levels during our first four years of delivery and how we’ve responded to this and made improvements for you and your students.

The focus groups will take place at the following times:

• Education and Early Years – 8 October, 10:30-11:30am and 3:30-4:30pm
• Health, Healthcare Science and Science – 9 October, 10:30-11:30am and 3:30-4:30pm
• Digital Business Services and Digital Support Services – 10 October, 10:30-11:30am and 3:30-4:30pm

We'd like as many of you represented as possible, so if you’d like to be involved, please email [email protected] stating which date and time best works for you.