Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will have discussions with a) NCFE, b) Ofqual and c) the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on the process for appealing T-level results.

If students or training providers consider that a T Level result is erroneous, or they consider the assessment criteria was not fairly, reliably, and consistently applied, they can submit an appeal to the relevant awarding organisations. T Level awarding organisations, such as NCFE, offer a comprehensive post-results service, that allows students and training providers to challenge any results which are outside of their reasonable expectation.

Providers can request a review of marking or moderation, as well as a copy of the marked student paper. Administrative guidance on NCFE’s post-result service and appeals process can be found at: https://www.ncfe.org.uk/approach-to-awarding/results/.

Students who are partway through their course also have two opportunities to retake their core assessments, should they wish to improve their grade.

Additionally, should a student wish to dispute their industry placement completion status, they should appeal directly to their training provider. As with other 16-19 education and training programmes, providers must have an existing internal student appeals process to deal with student appeals about the industry placement completion decision. Providers have a responsibility to treat all student appeals seriously, and they must be followed-up promptly.

In relation to this summer’s Health, Science, and Healthcare Science T Level results, Ofqual have now concluded through an independent expert review that the examination papers set by NCFE were flawed. New grades will be issued on the basis of other evidence, with an assurance that students’ grades will not be any lower than those originally issued.