T Levels March 2025 update
Welcome to February's T Level Update. This month, we're covering the release of autumn series results, FAQs on parallel running, and, of course, our usual sector updates.
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The approval window will open in February for providers commencing delivery 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 process (04:09 mins)
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
If you have any questions about provider approval, please contact us via the Pearson support portal.
For those of you currently delivering Generation 1 T Levels in Construction and/or Digital, 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
We will send component results from the autumn 2024 series to providers on 19 March 2025. These will come into your exams officer’s Edexcel Online mailbox and will consist of a statement 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 20 March 2025.
Component results are not the same as overall T Level results, which are be provided by the DfE on the August results day through the Manage T Level Results service.
Entries for Core component summer assessments are now open. You must make an entry for every student wishing to enter the assessment.
If you are making resit entries, please ensure you are familiar with the resit rules, which you can find in the TQ specification, or watch our support video on assessment, results and resits on our training and admin support page.
A new Occupational Specialism (OS) relating to Construction Project Management will be available for new students, with the first assessments now planned from 2027. This means students registering in September 2025 should be able to transfer over to the new specialism in their second year. The specification for the new OS won’t be published until later this year, however you can have early sight on request and/or via contributing to our Provider Panel.
The transition guide for those moving from BTEC Nationals in Construction to the T Level, including mapping of BTEC National units to the core content areas, is available on the course materials page.
Download the transition mapping guide
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. These will be published shortly on the Gatsby website.
Explore Construction resources on the Technical Education Networks site
Specification updates
We have made several minor updates to the specifications for both Craft and Design and Media, Broadcast and Production. The updates have not impacted the content or structure of assessments and are mainly limited to summary information tables where greater clarity was required.
For the full details, please review the summary of changes table at the front of each specification.
Overview of common updates:
- Updated lists of job roles that the T Level could lead to
- Component weightings added to qualification summary
Media, Broadcast, and Production specific specification updates:
- Events and Venues Technician resource list updated
- Spelling error within CPK3.6 corrected
Craft and Design specification updates have targeted the schemes of assessment for the Occupational Specialisms (OS):
- Assessment tasks have been renumbered
- Assessment timings references made consistent
- Performance outcome (PO) tables updated to include absent PO
- Resource lists updated for each OS
Upcoming changes to key dates schedules
Look out in the coming week for updated key dates schedules, which have been adjusted to provide more time in the assessment windows for most Occupational Specialisms. This will improve manageability, scheduling and provide contingency time in the assessments.
Access the key dates schedules
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Training
On our training and admin support page, you’ll 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:
Sign up for upcoming events
Getting Ready to Teach the T Level in Media Broadcast and Production (1h 7mins)
Getting Ready to Teach T Level in Craft and Design (1h 18 mins)
As part of our refresh of the Digital qualifications, we will be giving the 2025 versions new titles.
| Generation 1 T Level title | Generation 2 T Level title |
|---|---|
| Digital Production, Design and Development | Digital Software Development (with the Occupational Specialism retitled to match the standard as Digital Software Development) |
| Digital Support Services | Digital Support and Security |
| Digital Business Services | Digital Data Analytics (with the Occupational Specialism retitled to match the standard as Data Analytics Technician) |
We hope the new titles give a better indication as to the knowledge and skills developed in the T Level and translate more effectively when speaking to potential students, employers, and HEIs.
We will be resuming our podcast series in March, and we will have specials looking at each of the Digital T Levels as well as the content and assessments.
Listen to the Digital T Levels Development podcast on Spotify
We are hosting an update webinar on 12 March, where we’ll be looking at the new T Levels in Digital and giving an overview of what’s to come in the way of support.
Digital T Levels for 2025, 12 March 3–4 p.m. | Register to join
We'll be running future webinars with other partners, so keep an eye out for more events appearing on our training page throughout March.
If you are delivering the T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development, we need to know which coding languages you will be using for the Occupational Specialism assessment.
Let us know which programming language you’re using with your learners
We have worked with Cisco and their Networking Academy on teaching resources for Python and other programming languages used in the Occupational Specialism. It's completely 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; they have been created by industry experts like Raspberry Pi and our own examiners to support your delivery. For information, keep an eye on Gatsby's website.
These T Levels will be delivered by Pearson from September 20254. This will not affect your 2024 intake; those students will complete their T level with NCFE.
We have submitted the final specifications and assessments and are awaiting feedback. If you join our provider panel you will get early access to these ahead of publication on our website. If you wish to join our panel please send an email to Andrew.Hambelton@pearson.com if you want to join our panel.
We are looking for examiners ahead of the first assessment of these qualifications. We are currently advertising for the chair and lead examiner for the Digital Support and Security qualification; apply using the following links.
T Level - Digital Support Services- Online Principal Examiner
T Level - Digital Support Services- Traditional Principal Examiner
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.
We've recently added a podcast series from our examiners that will guide you through the core papers, our schemes of work and other aspects of our qualification.
More resources will be released in March, including slide decks on content areas:
- Element 5: Security and risk
- Element 8: Fundamentals of financial accounting
- Element 10: Data driven innovation/analytics and design thinking
- Element 13: Fundamentals of law
Curriculum planners for the Core and Occupational Specialism components are now available with a range of other new support materials.
Explore the resources on the course materials page
Our partner, The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), has a dedicated T Levels page to support you.
We have partnered with The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to support providers and learners. Details of the exemptions we have agreed to align with the CIM Level 3 qualifications and membership to their new Marketing Club are to be announced before Easter.
The Technical Qualification specification is now available on our website.
Download the Marketing specification
The delivery guide and schemes of work are now available to download from the course materials page.
Access Marketing course materials
Registrations are now open for our Getting Ready to Teach events later this year on our events and training page.
Getting Ready to Teach T Level in Marketing (CORE)
Book your place for 2 April, 16:00–17:30
Book your place for 16 June, 16:00–17:30
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 they require 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.
