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Qualification changes and reform

Digital qualifications: evaluation progress – Progress of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications and Digital Functional Skills Qualifications through Ofqual’s technical evaluation process

Technical qualifications within T Levels – Information on how Ofqual is regulating the technical qualification component of T Levels

Introduction of T Levels – Find out what T Levels courses include and how they work with other qualifications including grading and UCAS points

Functional Skills qualifications: requirements and guidance – A collection of documents providing rules and guidance for Functional Skills qualifications

Apprenticeship end-point assessments – A collection of documents showing Ofqual’s approach to external quality assurance of end-point assessments

AS and A level changes and reforms – Consultations, research and guidance about changes to subjects, regulations, assessment, grading and appeals

GCSE changes and reforms – Consultations, research and guidance about changes to subjects, regulations, assessment, grading and appeals     

Ofqual postcards: GCSE, AS and A level reforms, with an emphasis on reforms to qualifications in England 

Guide for schools and colleges 2022: GCSEs, AS and A levels

Explains how Ofqual regulates exam boards that provide GCSEs, AS and A levels, what schools and colleges can expect from ​exam boards and what exam boards, in turn, expect from schools and colleges