T Levels May 2025 update
Welcome to May's T Level Update. This month, we're sharing our 2025/26 fees, guidance on parallel running, applying for provider approval, and our usual sector updates.
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You can 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.
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
As the exam season approaches, make sure you’re familiar with Ofqual’s guidance on resilience in the qualifications system in the unlikely event that exams should not go ahead.
It asks that schools and colleges ensure students sit mock exams in exam conditions before their formal exams, and that their papers are retained. One set of mocks for this purpose should be enough. By doing this, schools and colleges will be sure they have alternative evidence of student performance to enable alternative methods of awarding grades, should they be needed.
You can download the T Level fees for 2025–26 from our training and admin support page. We'll publish the fees for Generation 2 Digital TQs once the qualifications have been approved by IfATE.
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 (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 by 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. You can find the guide on the course materials page.
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.
The summer series employer set project is now available to download from our website. Before you download it, make sure you also have the latest version of the administrative support guide, which we updated recently with further clarification around some of the tasks.
Download the updated administrative support guide
Download the employer set project
You can also download updated key dates schedules for both Craft and Design and Media Broadcast and Production with some amended assessment windows for the occupational specialism assessments. In most cases, the new dates have spread the windows out to help delivery and give more contingency time during the window for potential absences or unforeseen delays. There are updated 2024-2026 schedules, as well as updated 2025-2027 schedules, so ensure you have the new versions of each.
Download your updated key dates schedules
We recently contacted all Craft and Design providers about some minor amendments to the employer set project specimen and additional specimen materials, which are also reflected in the live employer set project. We held a live online event to run through these changes, but if you missed it, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you have.
Read our update on the employer set project
To help you and your students prepare, we’ve released new sets of guide standard exemplification materials for Ceramics Maker and Furniture Maker in Craft and Design, and Events and Venues Technician in Media Broadcast and Production. We also released additional specimen assessment materials for the core exam and employer set project last month, so you now have two sets of specimen assessments available to download. You can find all of these support materials and more on the course materials page.
Download Craft and Design course materials
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:
IfATE have approved our new Digital qualifications and their new titles from 2025.
| 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) |
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'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 in the upcoming months. If you haven’t yet seen the updated specifications, email andrew.hambelton@pearson.com and ask to join the provider panel and he can then send you the latest version.
We continued our podcast series in April, and we will have specials looking at each of the Digital T Levels as well as the content and assessments as the series goes on.
Listen to the Digital T Levels Development podcast on Spotify
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 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.
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.
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.
We also have a podcast series from our examiners that guides you through the core exams, our schemes of work and other aspects of the qualification.
Explore the Legal Services course materials
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.
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.
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.
