We know that you will be starting to concentrate on the Q-TAG process for your learners, and hope the information in this week’s Bulletin answers your immediate questions.

In this issue, you can find our updated BTEC Q-TAG guidance, which has additions clearly marked, highlighted in yellow. Based on your feedback, the administration aspects that were covered in this guidance, have now been moved to a separate document.

In our second update of March we are pleased to share our additional guidance for alternative assessment arrangements for Vocational qualifications.

At Pearson we continue to recognise the changing patterns of teaching, learning and assessment that the current situation has required. We remain focused on fairness for all our learners, be they in the UK or International. Find out more.

This week we’ve included new details on some adaptations, as well as a request for information we need from you in preparation for upcoming quality assurance and certification activities. Find out more.

In December, we announced that for some BTEC International suites we would reduce the amount of optional assessment that learners would need to complete. We also indicated that we would consider the reduction of mandatory internal assessments. Find out more.