Join us for our annual exams officer and administrator training event on 4 November, 12:00–13:00.

This online event is for anyone involved in the administration of the Technical Qualification, covering everything from undertaking provider approval to making registrations and entries and assessment scheduling.

4 November 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Book your place

You can now make new registrations on the Technical Qualification for your cohorts starting this academic year.

The deadline to make your registrations is 1 November. Late fees will apply to registrations received from 2 November onwards.

Need help? You’ll find guides to making registrations and managing student details on our admin support page.

Training and admin support

You must be approved by Pearson for each Technical Qualification you plan to deliver. If you didn’t apply for approval during the approval window (February–June 2025), please contact us as soon as possible.

Contact us via the Pearson support portal

You can still make core component entries for the autumn series. However, any entries made from 6 October will be subject to late fees. 

You must make an entry for every student wishing to enter the assessment. If you're making resit entries, make sure you’re familiar with the rules. 

Need help? You'll find guides and videos on making and managing entries and assessments, results and re-sits on our admin support page.

Training and admin support

Once you’ve made your entries, you can expect to start receiving question papers, attendance registers and labels for the autumn series from Monday 17 November. 

The yellow label service will be in place for this series for you to return scripts. 

Find out more about the yellow label service

If you need electronic copies of question papers — for example, if you make a very late entry or need to print onto coloured paper — you’ll be able to download them from the BTEC and T Level assessment download page. You'll need Secure Download Service access on your Edexcel Online account to access secure material.

BTEC and T Level assessment downloads

You can still occupational specialism entries for the summer 2026 series. However, any entries made from 6 October will be subject to late fees. You must make an entry for every student wishing to enter the assessment.

If you offer post-16 Level 2 study programmes at your centre, you might be interested in our Level 2 BTEC qualifications.

Join our webinar on 14 October, where we’ll walk you through the current BTEC portfolio and the potential changes as post-16 qualification reforms continue.

Post-16 Level 2 BTEC landscape for 2025 onward 

14 October, 3:30–4:30 p.m. | Book your place

Want help improving core exam performance? Our principal examiner’s recorded some guidance to help you improve this year.

Watch the bitesize recording on our training page

The Guide to Core Content Depth is also being updated to include the Generation 2 specification content and will be online shortly.

We'll start our annual content review of the specification and assessments in November. We don’t expect there to be many changes, given the recent updates to Generation 2 TQ; however, we are keen to hear from you if you identify any serious issues, or errors, with the specification – please email gabriel.staples@pearson.com.

A reminder that 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, is now available for students, with the first assessments in 2027. You can't register onto this occupational specialism just yet, but if you have students intended take this new option, you can register them on another pathway and transfer them once registrations become available.

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

Making assessments more manageable

Thanks to your feedback, we’re making assessments more manageable from next year:

• There will be a much longer window to complete the practical surveying task (facade survey).
• There will be a longer gap between core exam papers 1 and 2, giving learners more time to revise for the topics in each paper.

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.

Make the most of CITB’s new entrant mentoring programme

Find out about the CITB Into Work grant

If you're delivering for the first time this September, make sure to check out all the support we offer, including delivery guides, schemes of work, specimen assessments and guide standard exemplification materials. We've now also uploaded the new admin support guides for the employer set project and occupational specialism.

You’ll find these and more on each qualification's course materials page:

Craft and Design | Course materials

Media, Broadcast and Production | Course materials

Training

Watch our range of bitesize training and support sessions that will help guide you in your delivery of the T Levels for Craft and Design and Media Broadcast and Production.

Craft and Design: download your updated specimen assessment materials

We've updated the specimen assessment materials (SAMs) for the occupational specialism assessments in the T Level in Craft and Design. Revisions apply to SAMs, mark schemes and relevant templates for both tasks in all specialisms and will be carried through to the live assessments. Please make sure you've downloaded the latest versions of all these documents.

You can still make student registrations on the Technical Qualification for your cohorts starting this academic year. The deadline is 1 November. Late fees will apply to registrations received from 2 November onwards.

If you were approved by Pearson to deliver the Generation 1 T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development, you have automatic approval to deliver its Generation 2 replacement, the T Level in Digital Software Development. This does not mean you also automatically have approval to deliver Digital Support and Security or Digital Data Analytics.

If you were approved by NCFE to deliver the Generation 1 T Levels in Digital Support Services, and/or Digital Business Support and are now transitioning to the Generation 2 versions, you must gain provider approval from Pearson before starting teaching.  

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 are available on the website, along with specimen assessment materials for the core exams. We’ll release more materials over the coming months; here’s a rough schedule of what to expect when:

The administrative support guides for all three Gen 2 Digital T Levels’ employer set projects will be available on the website this month.

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.

Visit Gatsby's website

We launched the first set of support materials in July, joining the curriculum guides and mapping documents already available on the website. More materials will follow later this month and over the autumn term.

We launched the first set of support materials in July, joining the curriculum guides and mapping documents already available on the website. We’ll keep sharing more support materials during September 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.

Join our upcoming progress webinars to hear about the progress on these new TQs, get guidance on preparing to transition in September 2026 and take the opportunity to share your feedback with us. 

• Pearson T Level in Health progress webinar
  30 September, 3:30–5:00 p.m. | Book your place
• Pearson T Level in Science progress webinar
  2 October, 4:00–5:00 p.m. | Book your place

Bookmark the T Level Health and Science pages so you can keep up to date with updates to these qualifications as they happen:

T Level Technical Qualification in Health

T Level Technical Qualification in Science

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.

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.

No more 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.

Find out more about the CII support for T Levels

We’ve partnered with ACCA to support your T Level in Accounting:

1. Better engagement with employers
   ACCA can promote your college to their local employers.
   ACCA is holding a webinar on 15 October at 12:00 to educate employers on T Levels in Accounting and the benefits of placements and is . If you'd like to be involved to explain what is involved in a placement, please contact Rob Alder: rob.alder@accaglobal.com
2. Study support for your students
   Your students can sign up for ACCA X for free e-learning to management and financial accounting at Levels 2 and 3.
   Find out more about ACCA X
3. Access to paid resources
   ACCA offers £30 per T Level student provides toward access to study resources, careers support and additional discounts to Sage products. They also have the option to take their Management Accounting exams in year 2.
4. Career events and advice
   If your students register with ACCA, ACCA can offer career events to your students involving their members to give them a greater understanding of the accounting profession, ethics and careers advice (either at your college or in their HQ in London). 

We held a webinar with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) on 1 October, where CIM discussed the benefits this partnership will bring to your Marketing students, progression opportunities, CIM exemptions, professional recognition, enriched learning resources and more.

Couldn’t make it? Watch the recording on YouTube below.

Empowering Marketing Students Webinar (1:06:46mins)

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 specimen assessment materials, delivery guide and schemes of work are now available to download from the course materials page. The administrative support guide for the employer set project will be available on the website later this month.

Access Marketing course materials

Our training and admin support hub makes it easier for you to find the help you need when you need it. You can find admin documents and support, on-demand and live training resources, our training archive, provider FAQs, support from industry professionals and more, all in one place.

Some support materials are padlocked, meaning you'll need to have an Edexcel Online account to download them. If you don't have Edexcel Online access, please speak to your centre exams officer.

Explore our training and admin support

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.

Find your subject advisor and get in touch