November 2024 BTEC update for Business, Applied Law, Enterprise and Marketing
30 October 2024
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Welcome to this November 2024 update.
The lengthy Key Dates section covers the whole academic year and will, I hope, be a useful reference point.
As we await the findings of the Curriculum and Assessment Review there is a short survey you may wish to complete in the last section of the update.
| 1 November | Deadline to make registrations for new learners on BTEC Level 1-3 programmes following the academic year |
| 15 November | Final date to withdraw entries and receive a refund for January 2025 series BTEC Firsts, BTEC Nationals, BTEC Tech Award (2022) |
| 18 November | Tech Award: Learner Work Transfer opens for uploading sampled learner work for Dec/Jan |
| 15 December | Tech Award: deadline for mark submission and upload of work of sampled learners for internal assessments. |
| 31 December | Deadline to delete BTEC registrations made since 1 September 2024. |
| 21 February | BTEC Tech Award entry deadline for internal and external components for May/June. |
| 20 March | Release of January results to learners. |
| 21 March | BTEC Firsts, Nationals, entry deadline for external assessment for May/June. |
| 5 July | Claiming deadline: all internally assessed unit grades to be submitted and full award claims to be made by 5 July. |
| 14 August | Level 3 results day |
| 21 August | Level 2 results day |
Delivery support page
- Admin
- Delivery
- Free and paid-for resources
Assessment support page
- The internally assessed components
- The externally assessed component
The key dates for the Component 1 and 2 PSAs are in the Key Dates Schedule. Please note that the deadline for mark submission and upload of work of sampled learners for internal assessments has been moved from 1 May to 15 May.
The 2022 Tech Awards FAQs page is now live.
BTEC Tech Award training page
Our new BTEC Tech Award training and resources page is where you can find all the live and on-demand training resources for Tech Awards.
The BTEC Bitesize BTEC Tech Award in Enterprise videos
These videos cover Components 1 and 2, breaking each component down into the five tasks required in the PSA with suggestions to help prepare learners for each task.
We have published new exemplar standardisation materials (ESMs) for the internal components. You can download these from the course materials page, under teaching and learning materials.
We add new ESMs after every assessment series to give you additional fresh examples based on the most recent Pearson Set Assignments.
The terminal assessment rule requires learners to take the external assessment at the end of their qualification (when the learner is due to certificate). This means that learners must sit internal component assessments either prior to or in the same series as the external assessment to fulfil this terminal rule.
If a learner chooses to retake an internal assessment in a series after they sat the terminal external assessment, they will also need to resit the external component to satisfy the terminal rule.
Learners are allowed one resit of the external assessment within the programme.
January 2025 timetable
Summer 2025 timetable
The grade statistics for BTEC qualifications are published in late October/early November on the grade statistics page of the website.
These statistics can be used for benchmarking purposes. Please note that in line with all qualifications, learner achievement is reported at qualification level and not at unit level.
| Cohort | L2D* | L2D | L2M | L2P | L1D | L1M | L1P | U | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 |
23,709 | 2.1% | 10.4% | 22.8% | 27.4% | 17.6% | 10% | 5.1% | 4.8% |
January 2025 timetable
Summer 2025 timetable
Due to the timing of the Easter break in 2025, we will release summer pre-release material from 31 March 2025.
Funding - England
Funding - Northern Ireland & Wales
For help with:
- delivery support
- professional bodies partnerships
- free resources
- paid-for resources from Pearson
For help with:
- internally assessed units
- externally assessed units
- examiners' reports
- grade boundaries and statistics
Professional Body partnerships
We have partnership agreements with the following organisations:
- ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
- CII (Chartered Institute of Insurance)
- CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing)
- CMI (Chartered Management Institute)
Your completing learners might be interested in progression opportunities provided by these professional bodies.
January 2025 timetable
Summer 2025 timetable
Due to the timing of the Easter break in 2025, we will release summer pre-release material from 31 March 2025.
Funding - England
Funding - Northern Ireland & Wales
Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Business (600/4786/0)
The last registration date is now 31 July 2027.
The last certification date is now 31 July 2029.
Unit 3 workshops (BTEC Nationals)
Tutor2U will be running an extended programme of Unit 3 Grade Booster Exam Workshops in the Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 terms, coming to Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London.
January 2025 timetable
Summer 2025 timetable
Due to the timing of the Easter break in 2025, we will release summer pre-release material from 31 March 2025.
Funding - England
Funding - Northern Ireland & Wales
For help with:
- delivery support
- the Esports learner
- the Esports teacher
For help with:
- assessment support
- grade statistics
Funding - England
Funding - Northern Ireland & Wales
January 2025 timetable
Summer 2025 timetable
Funding
The BTEC Works site can help with recruitment of learners.
The Curriculum and assessment review page invites you to both share your views and join a live event.
Please take 5 minutes to complete this Microsoft form to support a Pearson research project on the impact of qualification reform on internally assessed criterion referenced assessments.
Launch of Skills England
The Prime Minister and Education Secretary have announced the launch of Skills England. This new organisation will bring together central and local government, businesses, training providers and unions to meet the skills needs of the next decade across all regions, providing strategic oversight of the post-16 skills system aligned to the Government’s Industrial Strategy.
Skills England will be established in phases over the next 9-12 months to create a responsive and collaborative skills system and the Skills England Bill will transfer functions from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) to Skills England.
Richard Pennycook CBE, former chief executive of the Co-operative Group and lead non-executive director at the DfE, has been appointed as the interim Chair.
As part of the Level 3 Vocational Qualification reforms we would like to invite you to help influence the next generation of BTEC Nationals. We want to ensure we capture the teacher and learner voice in our qualifications and support materials.
This is your opportunity to have your say and get involved.
Although too early for Business-related qualifications we do have two new pages where new AAQ and technical qualifications will be featured.
Subject advisor
Colin Leith
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