Ofqual updates

See all the latest documents from Ofqual

Also see a summary of Ofqual’s Policy papers and consultations

The Exams Office encourages centres to read the The Ofqual blog

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

Supporting Exams Officers and their centres

The Exams Office welcomes Ofqual to its National Exams Officer Conferences

The Exams Office has been working closely with Ofqual over recent years and welcomes Ofqual’s attempt to raise the profile of exams officers, and increase awareness of exams regulations and requirements

Ofqual provides a film about the role of the Exams Officer to raise awareness of the important work they do along with other exam resources