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November 2023 Updates: 

Last updated: 23/11/2023

Autumn assessment series

If you have students registered for either the core exams or Employer Set Project (ESP) in the autumn assessment series, take a look at these useful reminders to help ensure these assessments go smoothly.  

Important actions and reminders

• Mandatory training: Mandatory training for providers delivering T Level qualifications with moderated assessments is now live. Providers must ensure this is completed by 29 February 2024.

Supporting your delivery

• Professional Development Week: From 18-21 December, our Provider Development team is hosting a Professional Development Week, aiming to deliver a variety of live and recorded remote sessions to our Providers that will support and enhance teaching and learning practice whilst also giving insight into our processes. 

• Coping with exam pressure - guide from Ofqual: To support students with the autumn assessment series for T Levels, we’re sharing a new guide to help them feel more confident about exams and assessments, and how to best plan their revision.  

• New T Level qualification materials: Grade standard exemplification materials (GSEMs) for the Summer 2023 assessment series are now available on the T Level qualification pages (via ‘support materials’) on our website. Additional employer set project (ESP) exemplar materials are also available; these include E grade exemplars for Assisting with Healthcare Science, Digital Business and Laboratory Sciences and contain student responses, alongside examiner commentary to support you and your students. 

• Learning resource offer update: To support you in the delivery of NCFE supplied T Levels, we've continued to expand and update our suite of essential and additional materials .  All materials can be accessed from the ‘Teaching Materials’ tab on the relevant qualification page on our website. 

Education and Early Years specific updates

• Join our first Education and Early Years Assessor and Teacher Network on Monday 18 December, 3-4:30pm: With input and ideas from NCFE Moderators and TQ providers, the sessions will allow for the sharing of ideas and experiences and provider ‘top tips’ for success.  

   

• Updated support materials for Education and Early Years T Level: There’s now an updated version of the Early Years Educator Assignment 2 Competence Observation Criteria available on the website for providers who are currently delivering the Early Years Educator Occupational Specialism to their year 2 students. This can be found in the support materials section of the qualification page under 'Early Years Educator Assignment 2'.  

Digital

• Explore our events to support your delivery of the Digital T Levels: These include our ‘Year 1 Core Assessment Support’ webinar and ‘Maximising success in the Employer Set Project (ESP)’ bitesize videos.  

Health, Healthcare Science and Science specific updates 

• Health, Healthcare Science & Science teaching and delivery support: Explore the range of support we have available to you, including bitesize videos, student packs and training events.