July 2026 BTEC update for Business, Applied Law, Enterprise and Marketing
Wed Jul 01 09:30:00 UTC 2026
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Welcome to the July 2026 update from your Subject Advisor
As this is the last newsletter for the academic year, please find the support we have put in place for teachers, learner, parents and carers as we await results days as well as updates to be aware for the start of 2026/27 Autumn term.
Highlights of this month’s newsletter:
- Preparing for Results Day
- Qualification and feedback survey
- Upcoming quality assurance training
- Changes to the uploading of learner work from September 2026
- Upcoming training event dates
- Much more...
| Date | Qualification | Exam Code | Subject | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11 August | BTEC Nationals | Business, Enterprise and Entrepreneuship and Marketing | Examiner Reports released | |
| Thursday 13 August | BTEC Nationals | RESULTS DAY - Summer 2026 | ||
| Tuesday 18 August | BTEC TECH Award | Enterprise | Examiner Reports released | |
| Thursday 20 Aug | Edexcel Award Level 1 and 2, ELC, BTEC Firsts, Technicals and Tech Awards | RESULTS DAY - Summer 2026 |
| Training Session | Date |
|---|---|
| Getting Started: Ways to Teach and Assess BTEC Tech Award (2022) in Enterprise | 17 September 2026 at 16:00 - 18:00 GMT |
| Getting Started: Ways to Teach and Assess BTEC Tech Award (2022) in Enterprise | 24 September 2026 at 16:00 - 18:00 GMT |
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| Checkpoint Dates | Built using your feedback, in this guide you’ll find key dates, termtime checkpoints and helpful prompts across each term. Keep it bookmarked and share this with your team. While exams officers lead the way on most of these tasks, it’s important that the wider curriculum team, from quality nominees, teachers and tutors to senior leaders, understands what’s coming up and how they support the process. What qualifications do these key dates cover? BTEC Nationals, BTEC Firsts, BTEC Tech Award and BTEC Technicals, delivered in colleges and achools in the UK. |
Firstly, well done to all learners who sat exams this summer. For many of you it will have been your first experience of sitting external exams, so you should be proud of this achievement.
Now, as you wait to get your results, we want to share some helpful information with you about what to expect on results day and where to find further support
should you need it.
Please feel free to share this document with your learners, parents and carers across your centre.
To enable us to improve the experience of teachers using our qualifications and students sitting our exams, we gather feedback after each exam series. If you're a teacher, and your students have taken any of our GCSE, International GCSE, A level or International A level exams in the May/June 2026 series, or studied for any of our BTEC qualifications, we're eager to hear your thoughts.
Your feedback will play a vital role in shaping the future of our qualifications and assessments. Your input will be shared with our senior examiners and across our subject teams to help us continuously improve future assessments and enhance the exam experience for students. Please complete our short surveys below. Thank you.
If you deliver BTEC qualifications, a range of training and support is available to help you prepare for the year ahead, including:
- Digital Assessment Plan training
- Digital Assessment Plan drop-in sessions
- Roles and Responsibilities training for Quality Nominees and Lead Internal Verifiers
- Quality Nominee Network events
Now is a great time to explore the available support and plan for the upcoming year.
Over the summer, we may need to contact your centre urgently about results.
To help us reach the right people quickly, please tell us who your senior designated contacts are. This helps us resolve any issues straight away and protect your students’ results.
What you need to do
Please complete the form by 10 July with details of two senior designated contacts.
When we’ll use your senior designated contacts
We’ll only use these details for urgent, results-related issues during the summer.
We’ll always try your usual point of contact first, as indicated on Edexcel Online.
If we don’t hear back within 24 hours, we’ll contact your senior designated contacts so nothing is delayed.
We’ll keep the details you provide until 30 September 2026, then securely delete them
Who to include as your senior designated contacts
.Choose people who can:
- access the information needed to resolve urgent issues
- step in to manage cases such as missing scripts, safeguarding concerns or suspected malpractice
- monitor their inbox and answer calls during the summer.
As we move closer to results day and beyond, remember that ResultsPlus is now accessible for BTEC qualification for the examined units.
ResultsPlus is our online results analysis tool for teachers. Included as part of your qualification fees, ResultsPlus gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Pearson Edexcel exams and BTEC external assessments.
Why should I use ResultsPlus?
- Provides detailed analysis of your learners performance.
- Identify potential topics, skills and types of question where students may need to develop their learning further.
- See actual scores for each exam question for a student, class or group.
- Understand how your students’ performance compares with class and Pearson Edexcel national averages.
- Acquire data that may support effective learning and teaching approaches.
Reminder and new guidance for you and your students!
Your students can receive a digital credential alongside their vocational qualification this summer. We’re getting in touch with a quick reminder and some new guidance to help you make sure eligible students at your centre receive theirs.
A digital credential gives them a verified, shareable record of their achievement that they can use when applying for jobs, apprenticeships or further study.
How to make sure your students receive their digital credentials
To make sure everything runs smoothly at results time and eligible students receive their digital credential, you need to upload student email addresses in Edexcel Online.
We recommend using each student’s centre email address. Once their digital credential has been issued, students should change this to a personal email address in Credly.
If a student’s email address hasn’t been added, we won’t be able to issue their digital credential.
For students who are eligible to certificate before August results day, their digital credential will still be issued in August, as long as their email address is added before they are certificated.
NEW | guidance to support you and your students
We’ve added new, practical guidance to help you understand digital credentials and to make it easier to explain them to students.
For you
- Digital Credentials for Vocational Qualifications: FAQs
- Digital Credential Overview and Issuing Guide (Centres)
- Digital Credentials Learner Email Address Bulk Upload / Update Guide
- Digital Credentials Communications Guide (Centres)
For your students
We’d encourage you to share guidance directly with students so they know what to expect, how to access their credential and how they can use it.
The provisional timetables for BTEC external assessments for the Winter 2027 and Summer 2027 exam series have now been published on our website.
These timetables cover all BTEC qualifications, including BTEC Firsts, Tech Awards, Technicals, Nationals, and Nationals AAQ.
If you woudl like to share any feedback, please contact timetables@pearson.com before the 20 March.
Ofqual is launching a podcast for teachers and school leaders.
'Can I Just Qualify That?' will be built around conversations that matter and advice you can use.
The first few episodes will cover everything from qualification reform and how GCSE and A level grading works, to helpful tips for exam season, results days, and cyber security.
Episode one drops on Thursday 4 June on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. Subscribe to Ofqual's YouTube channel now so you don't miss it:
The latest information page from the JCQ includes
- guidance for teachers on malpractice
- presentations for teachers and learners
- an information sheet for teachers
- a poster for learners
The Centre Guides are available below.
The first document is the BTEC Centre Guide to Internal Assessment (although it is just labelled 'Document Title').
We wanted to let you know that the BTEC Tech Award Enterprise video resources are being moved to Pearson's main YouTube channel to make it easier to access all Pearson content in one place.
Please note that any bookmarks or saved links to the previous playlist or individual videos may no longer work, as the resources have been removed from the old channel.
We recommend updating any saved links and sharing the new playlist with colleagues and learners.
When you upload learner work to Learner Work Transfer, Progress or SharePoint for marking, verification or moderation, you need to make sure your files meet a few basic requirements. This helps uploads run smoothly and avoids delay.
These changes will happen from September 2026.
We’ve extended all BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Awards in England and Northern Ireland to 31 August 2030.
The Tech Awards aren’t currently affected by reforms at this level, so you can continue to deliver them with confidence.
You’ll continue to have access to high-quality resources, guidance and training to support your delivery.
The Pearson Set Assignment briefs are now live!
These assessment are for use with the December 2026 – January 2027 moderation series only.
You must ensure the correct assessment is issued to learners.
This assessment may be given to learners as soon as it is received. Please refer to the Administrative Support Guide for further information and mark submission deadlines.
Please ensure to consult the Sector Support Guide to help with ensuring appropriate businesses are chosen to study. This will be updated, shortly, for the start of the 26/27 academic year.
New video's on our BTEC Award in Enterprise Bitesize training channel, are now live!
A new series of video shorts have been uploaded for Component 2 called; How to apply the mark scheme.
Each video takes each task in turn to show you how the marks are attributed for each task. Examplar work is used to showcase what a moderator is looking for when ensuring the work is marked against the national standard.
More live training on all components before the end of the summer term, dates will be published online soon!
The Principal Moderator reports now provide exemplar learner work and improved comprehensive performance commentary to aid your best understanding of how marks are awarded and grades are achieved.
This updated approach consolidates support materials and replaces separate standardisation documents with a unified resource, ensuring earlier and more consistent feedback to centres.
This will apply to all BTEC Tech Award qualifications.
If you’re running BTEC external assessments, you want to find everything you need to know quickly and easily so that everything runs smoothly. We’ve made a new tool to help you do exactly that.
We’ve now added the ability to filter to multiple programmes at the same time, so you can export just what you need all at once.
We have published this support guide to aid to enhance learner and centre confidence in selecting appropriate enterprises for both Component 1 and Component 2, as required by the PSA, each series
It provides structured examples of enterprise types within various industries that may be studied.
This is not an exhaustive list and serves as guidance for meeting the criteria of size, type, and ownership, which is outlined in the PSA ‘vocational context’, each series, and must be consulted before choosing the businesses to study.
The guide will be updated, when required, to reflect the demands of the PSA enterprise catergories.
Examplar financial documents and statement templates can be found online, in the teaching and learning material section, for exam practice in ensuring the expectations of questions and answers are managed to best support your learners.
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Delivery support page
- Admin and delivery
- Free and paid-for resources
- Training videos
Assessment support page
- The three components
- Terminal assessments and resits
- Grade boundaries and statistics
BTEC qualifications extended in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
From 2027, the government will introduce new Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications in England, including Foundation Certificates, Occupational Certificates, V Levels and additional T Levels. These will be phased in by subject, with current vocational qualifications withdrawn by 2030.
We’ve extended all current BTEC qualifications in England line with the reform timeline. This means you can continue to deliver them until reformed qualifications are introduced in each subject area.
We’ve also extended many BTEC qualifications in Wales and Northern Ireland, offering more flexibility as you plan your offer.
Use the funding guide for your country to see the latest qualification availability and funding positions:
- Post-16 vocational qualifications funding guide for England
- Funding guide for Wales
- Funding guide for Northern Ireland
- Qualification availability guide for independent centres (private or apprenticeship funded)
Get involved with the development of new qualification.
If you’d like to be involved in the development of our future qualifications through this reform period, let us know. We rely on your expertise and experience to make sure our qualifications suit the needs of you and your learners.
Proposals are already in place for the first wave of reformed Level 2 and qualifications in Education, Digital and Accounting & Finance. Complete this short survey to share your views on qualification structure, the balance of internal and external assessment and the best methods of assessment.
When you upload learner work to Learner Work Transfer, Progress or SharePoint for marking, verification or moderation, you need to make sure your files meet a few basic requirements. This helps uploads run smoothly and avoids delay.
These changes will happen from September 2026.
Join our upcoming Digital Assessment Plan (DAP) training session, designed specifically for UK BTEC centre staff including Quality Nominees, Lead Internal Verifiers and Assessors.
This session will provide a clear and practical overview of the DAP, including its purpose and the benefits it brings to centres.
Participants will explore which qualifications are in scope, learn how to access and navigate the DAP, and gain hands-on insight into key features of the centre dashboard through a guided walkthrough.
We will also outline key deadlines and milestones to support effective planning and submission, alongside dedicated time to address common questions and signpost available support and resources.
The live events below will be held online via our 'Zoom' training platform.
To reserve your place, please follow the session link to complete the registration form.
An email will be sent to confirm your booking and will include a link for you to add the meeting to your calendar.
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Following the CAR report and consultation findings, the roadmap for Level 3 pathways is now clearer.
Below is the funding guidance as of April 2026. Most qualifications will have their first teach extended to the 27/28 academic year, except Extended Diplomas, which will be defunded from 26/27 as previously announced. We provide multiple pages to update you on reforms and current curriculum developments.
We are also beginning to understand which subjects will be introduced to replace the BTEC qualification in Business, in a V Level fomat, as well as timelines. We expect further updates on this later this year.
Modified papers for learner with varying needs to access past examination materials, are now available to download from our website.
Applied Law - January 2026
Applied Law - May 2026
Business - May 2026
Enterprise & Entrepreneurship - May 2026
Marketing - May 2026
Delivery support page
- Admin and delivery
- Free and paid-for resources
- Professional bodies partnerships
Assessment support page
- Internally assessed units
- Externally assessed units
- Examiners' reports
- Grade boundaries and statistics
You may notice changes to some of your IQRF reports over the coming months.
We’re building a new hub in the Progress platform to manage ISV quality reports. It’s currently being trialled with a number of centres and standards verifiers, and will give you a faster, simpler and more secure way to work.
What’s happening now?
As we’re working on improvements, some of your International Quality Report Forms (IQRFs) will look different. You may receive some of these as a PDF export of the completed report, until you can get access to the new hub through the Progress platform later in the year.
What’s happening later this year?
You’ll get access to a new module within the Progress platform, where you will have visibility of sampling work planned and the status of the post sampling reports. This keeps sensitive information secure without relying on email. You’ll also have access to better support, including live chat, multilingual help, and customer support teams.
You can access first-class support
We’re here to make sure you have everything you need to get started, with step-by-step guidance and ongoing help from our support team. You can expect to hear from us ahead of the new hub going live, with access to support materials, guidance videos and Q&A sessions.
If you have any questions, please contact us through the Pearson support portal, and we’ll be happy to help.
| 18 June 2026 at 09:00 - 11:30 GMT | Introduction to Teaching the International BTEC Level 3 in Business |
| 04 August 2026 at 09:00 - 15:00 GMT | Grading Standardisation Workshop for BTEC International Level 2 & 3 Business |
| 10 September 2026 at 09:00 - 11:30 GMT | Introduction to Teaching the International BTEC Level 3 in Business |
| 17 September 2026 at 08:30 – 11:00 GMT | Introduction to Teaching the International BTEC Level 3 in Business |
Watch the training session held last month to support the marking of learner work for both Level 2 and Level 3.
We have a variety of pages devoted to keeping you updated with the specifications, teaching resources, sample assignment materials as well as all authorised assignment briefs and Pearson Set Assignments.
Also find access and support the Pearson Progress platform to help simplify the planning and assessment of BTEC qualifications
Find ot more about our work with strategic partners such as Liverpool Football Club and the British Esports Federation, amongst others, allowing us to maintain content relevance and global reach.
We have developed digital resources to support your delivery of our suite of BTEC International Level 3 qualifications and cover the mandatory and some of the more popular optional units.
Our Study Texts have been thoroughly developed and feature international examples, scenarios and references to make them relevant across a broad range of geographical territories and support learning and teaching delivery.
Subject advisor
Sarah Mark
BTEC Business, Enterprise, Esports and Marketing
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