T Levels June 2025 update
Welcome to June's T Level Update. This month, we're sharing guidance on preparing for core exams, summer results, and our usual sector updates.
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You have until 30 June to apply for approval to start delivering T Levels in September 2025. You must gain approval for each Technical Qualification you wish to deliver.
Please watch our provider approval video before starting your application.
You can find support documents and approval forms on our training and admin support page, including:
- a guide to provider approval – start here!
- Pearson T Level technical qualification delivery approval application form
- Pearson vocational provider approval application for T Level Technical Qualifications
- fast-track provider approval application form
Visit our training and admin support page
If you have any questions about provider approval, please get in touch.
You want your students to feel prepared for their core exams, and we’ve got everything you need to help. We've made a collection of short videos covering topics such as annual planning, preparation, and improvement, understanding command words, preparing students, and understanding re-sits.
All the materials are generic, so you can use them to support any of the T Levels delivered by Pearson.
You can find the core exam support and preparation videos on our training and admin support page, under the “on-demand training” heading.
As part of our responsibility for delivering the Technical Qualification, we issue results for the core component (the core exams and employer set project) and the occupational specialism.
We'll send component results to exams officers’ Edexcel Online mailboxes on 13 August 2025. These will consist of statements of results (one PDF per student) and a broadsheet of results for all students at the centre across all Technical Qualification components. The release of these component results to students is embargoed until 14 August 2025.
We will transfer all component results to the DfE, who are responsible for:
- aggregating and issuing the overall T Level result via their Manage T-Level results service, including results from the two Technical Qualification components and the completion of the industry placement
- issuing T Level certificates and statements of achievement
- reporting T Level grades to UCAS.
For more information, explore the DfE’s T Levels support for schools and colleges or contact the DfE directly.
T Levels support for schools and colleges
If you have any questions about the Manage T Level results service, you can contact tlevel.resultsandcertification@education.gov.uk.
If you're currently delivering Generation 1 T Levels in Construction and/or Digital, and therefore moving to the Generation 2 specifications in September 2025, there will be a period of parallel running, either with the delivery of two specifications with the same awarding organisation or working with two different awarding organisations.
See the Generation 2 section of our FAQs for more information
The Generation 2 specification for teaching from September 2025 is now available.
Watch a recording of our provider event introducing the 2025 specification to learn what’s new.
A new occupational specialism, Project Delivery for Construction, will be available for new students, with the first assessments planned from 2027. This specification won’t be published until later this year; however, you can have early sight on request and/or via contributing to our Provider Panel.
If you’re moving from BTEC Nationals in Construction to the T Level, use our transition guide to help you map BTEC National units to the core content areas.
Pearson has been working with the Gatsby Foundation to provide high quality teaching resources for several topics in the Core: Law, Maths and Modern Methods of Construction. Keep an eye on the Gatsby Technical Education Networks website.
Explore Construction resources on the Technical Education Networks site
Support your T Level delivery with CITB
Need support for employers? Whether you already have relationships with employers or you’re trying to encourage employers to take students on placement, the CITB have great support to help.
To help your delivery and give you more contingency time for potential absences or delays, we've amended the occupational specialism assessment window for both Craft and Design and Media Broadcast and Production. There are updated 2024–2026 and 2025–2027 schedules, so ensure you have both.
Download your updated key dates schedules
Training
Head to our training and admin support page to find Getting to Know the Specification videos for an introduction to key information in the specifications and overview of the course structure.
Watch our Getting to know the specification videos
You can also sign up for live Getting Ready to Teach training events running in June on our events page, or you can watch the recordings of past sessions:
We’re recruiting!
Interested in working with us as a T Level examiner? Read the descriptions and apply to join us:
The three new Digital qualifications have been approved by IfATE and Ofqual have issued their qualification aim numbers (QAN).
| Generation 2 T Level | QAN |
|---|---|
| Digital Software Development (with the occupational specialism retitled to match the standard as Digital Software Development) | 610/5801/4 |
| Digital Support and Security | 610/5799/X |
| Digital Data Analytics (with the occupational specialism retitled to match the standard as Data Analytics Technician) | 610/5800/2 |
You’ll need to apply for provider approval if you’re planning to deliver these new qualifications from September 2025. Refer to our guide to provider approval on our training and admin support page to check if you’re eligible for automatic approval.
If you’ve been waiting for a provider approval decision, don’t worry. We had to pause provider approval applications until Ofqual issued QANs; now we have them, we can resume processing applications.
If you're migrating from Generation 1 to Generation 2 T Levels, we've put together some additional FAQs to help you.
Read our provider approval FAQs
The new specifications, sample assessment materials, and support materials will be available week commencing 9 June. If you’d like to have your say in how these T Levels evolve, please email andrew.hambelton@pearson.com and ask to join the provider panel.
Our development podcast series is available now and we'll be following the series up with support podcasts soon.
Listen to the Digital T Levels Development podcast on Spotify
We've worked with Cisco and their Networking Academy on teaching resources for Python and other programming languages used in the occupational specialism. It's free to sign up and become a Cisco Networking Academy centre.
Access the resources and find out more at the Cisco Networking Academy
Gatsby are continuing the rollout the Digital T Level support created by industry experts like Raspberry Pi and our own examiners to enrich your delivery. For information, keep an eye on Gatsby's website.
We'll launch the first set of support materials in June, as well as curriculum guides and mapping documents. In the autumn, we'll be running a joint webinar with Cisco to look at how you can use Netacad to enhance your teaching and prepare for the ESP and OS assessments. Sign up for these events will be available on our training page later in June.
We’ll launch the first set of support materials in June, as well as curriculum guides and mapping documents. We’ll keep sharing more support materials over the summer and throughout the autumn.
These Generation 2 T Levels will be delivered by Pearson from September 2026. This will not affect your 2024 or 2025 intake; those students will complete their T level with NCFE.
By adding these T Levels to your curriculum, you’ll be meeting the growing demand from industry, broadening your course options and attracting students excited about high-quality vocational qualifications.
We'd love you to join our provider panel and share your opinions about the content, the structure and manageability of the assessments, and anything else you feel would be useful as we refresh both Technical Qualifications. To join, please email Andrew Hambelton at andrew.hambleton@pearson.com.
We have resources to support your delivery, including schemes of work for the core and occupational specialism components, exemplar materials for the employer set project, and a content overview for Core Paper 2.
Improvements to the occupational specialism
We’ve made some changes to the T Level Finance occupational specialisms to help make assessment clearer and more efficient.
We will no longer be providing pre-release materials. This change is designed to streamline your preparation process, ensuring all necessary information is included within the main assessment documents.
Tasks that were previously split into separate documents (e.g., Task A and Task B) will now be combined into a single task booklet. This adjustment aims to simplify the administration and handling of assessment materials.
We’ve uploaded updated administrative support guides to reflect these changes, and these are available to download from our course materials page, along with curriculum planners.
Explore the Finance course materials
Support from The Chartered Insurance Insitute
Our partner The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has a dedicated T Levels page to support you.
ACCA have developed an offer to support your T Level Accounting students with their progression and employability, as well as employer introductions, Sage discounts and careers in accountancy events.
For more information, contact Rob Alder at rob.alder@accaglobal.com.
We have partnered with The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to support providers and students. Details of the exemptions we have agreed to align with the CIM Level 3 qualifications and membership to their new Marketing Club are now available on our website.
Find out more about our partnership with CIM
The Technical Qualification specification is now available on our website, and the Getting to Know the Specification on-demand training is available on our training and admin page.
The delivery guide and schemes of work are now available to download from the course materials page.
Our training and admin support page gathers everything you need to support your T Level delivery:
- On-demand training such as Getting to Know the Specification, Employer Set Project training, Keeping it Simple materials, and our termly policy update.
- T Level live training where you can search for events and book Q&A networks, Getting Ready to Teach events, Getting Ready to Assess events.
- Our training archive collects recordings of past events if you are unable to attend any of our live training sessions or want to listen again.
- Administration documents and support, including key dates schedules, Provider approval guidance, administration support guides for assessment, videos to support making registrations and entries, understanding resit rules, and much more.
- Teaching support materials are padlocked, meaning you need an Edexcel Online account to access them. If you don't have Edexcel Online access, please speak to your centre exams officer.
If you need specific support with your T Level, our subject advisors are here to help. You can book a 15-minute one-to-one call where you can discuss any issue you are having with regards to planning or delivery of your T Level.
