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A revolution in technical education
T Levels
T Levels summer 2024 assessment series – what you need to know
T Levels are a high-quality, work-focused alternative to A Levels for those aged 16 – 18. These two-year courses are designed with employers to intimately reflect the needs of the sectors and occupations they’re designed to serve.
After completing their two-year T Level, students will have the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to successfully progress into work or higher-level study.
Innovative qualifications
We use deep insight into what employers need to design qualifications for a future highly skilled, adaptive workforce. Our T Levels come under three main subject areas:
Key points you need to know about T Levels:
- Courses last two years
- 1 T Level is equivalent to three A Levels
- Created in collaboration with employers
- Include a substantial industry placement
- Attract UCAS points
- Support progression into skilled work and higher or degree level apprenticeships, higher level technical study, including university.
Creating the next generation of skilled workers
T level updates
Read our T Level Provider updates which contain important actions and reminders, resources to support your delivery and subject specific updates.
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Education and Early Years T Levels
We worked with over 45 sector bodies, employers, practitioners and training providers to develop the technical qualification that underpins the Education and Early Years T Level.
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Health and Science T Levels
NCFE spearheaded the development of the technical qualifications that sit at the centre of the Health, Healthcare Science, and Science T Levels.
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Digital T Levels
Our subject specialists embedded our industry collaborators’ insights, needs, and demands into future-focused qualifications that fill skills gaps and meet the needs of the digital sector.
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Hairdressing, Barbering and Beauty Therapy T Levels
It was announced on 30 January that the Hairdressing, Barbering and Beauty Therapy T Level will be reshaped as a T Level focused on the beauty sector, and launched after 2025.
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