Guidance

T Levels funding guide 2026 to 2027

Updated 10 March 2026

Applies to England

Summary

Designed with businesses and employers, T Levels are 2-year, level 3 technical qualifications intended to give students the skills that industry needs. They bring classroom learning and an extended industry placement together.

What’s new

Rates and funding bands

We’ve published the national funding rates for T Levels. We have created 3 new funding bands, to apply a 5% uplift to technical qualifications introduced from academic year 2022 to 2023. As a result, bands 6 to 8 now have uplifted versions alongside the existing non-uplifted bands. The funding bands are confirmed here in the 2026 to 2027 T Level and foundation year programme cost weightings and funding bands list.

All funding rates for academic year 2027 to 2028 are still to be confirmed.

Updated T Levels - generation 2

Skills England ran a competitive bidding process to award generation 2 contracts for some T Levels. The contracts were due to end as they were among the second wave of the qualifications to be rolled out from 2021. The successful awarding organisations have updated the following T Levels, which will be available for delivery from September 2026:

• health (this contains 5 occupational specialisms)
• science (this now contains 2 occupational specialisms instead of 3 as enrolments for the “Metrology” occupational specialism will cease and there will be no new enrolments from academic year 2026 to 2027 onwards)
• building services engineering for construction: the “Low Carbon Heating Engineering” occupational specialism has been added within the generation 2 T Level qualification 

We will fund these at the same funding bands as their generation 1 equivalents for academic year 2026 to 2027. We will apply any changes to the funding bands following the qualifications approvals by Skills England, from academic year 2027 to 2028. You can find full details of funding bands by occupational specialisms in the 2026 to 2027 T Level and foundation year programme cost weightings and funding bands list.

For the generation 2 Education and Early Years technical qualification, institutions delivering the Assisting Teaching occupational specialism will not be expected to deliver 100 additional hours of the industry placement observation. As a result, we will fund this occupational specialism as band 5. Students continuing on the generation 1 version of the specialism will still be funded in band 6. The 100 hours expectation will continue to apply to the generation 2 Early Year Educator occupational specialism.

Provider eligibility

Institutions can deliver T Levels, provided they have a 16 to 19 funding agreement for the academic year, and receive approval from the awarding organisations. We adjust funding to reflect T Level delivery as part of the in-year reconciliation process in spring 2027. We will use the data you provide on your individualised learner record (ILR) R04 or autumn school census returns and we require institutions to submit their data accurately and on time. Read the record your T Level data correctly guidance for support.

If you do not have a 16 to 19 funding agreement or contract but have previously delivered 16 to 19 provision and temporarily paused delivery, you may still be able to deliver T Levels. Contact us through the customer help portal for support.

If you have not previously delivered 16 to 19 provision, refer to the 16 to 19 education (non-apprenticeship): market entry guidance.

T Level funding for non-maintained special schools and special academy sixth forms

Non-maintained special schools (NMSS) and special academy sixth forms can deliver T Levels. As with study programmes, additional costs incurred by these institutions for delivering T Levels can be met by the local authority through its high needs top-up funding if:

• the programme is commissioned by the authority, and
• the additional cost is agreed as part of the overall cost that is met through the school’s high needs place and top-up funding

Therefore, these institutions will not receive specific T Level funding from the Department for Education (DfE).

T Level Funding Methodology: use of the 16 to 19 Formula and student number calculation

Whilst we use the 16 to 19 funding formula to fund institutions to deliver T Levels to their students, we do not at present calculate T Level numbers using the full 16 to 19 lagged student methodology.

The 16 to 19 funding formula

T Level students are part of the student numbers in the 16 to 19 funding formula. We count all T Level students in the 16 to 19 core programme funding and total programme funding. This means that T Level students attract all elements of the 16 to 19 funding formula.

Key differences between T Levels and 16 to 19 study programme funding

We have built specific arrangements to distribute T Level funding for 16- to 19-year-olds, including:

• funding bands 6 to 9 to accommodate the different sizes of T Levels - for academic year 2026 to 2027, we have also created 3 additional bands (uplifted bands 6 to 8), to apply the 5% uplift for technical qualifications introduced from academic year 2022 to 2023 onwards
• funding based on the hours above the usual band 5 full-time rate for study programmes spread over 2 years because T Levels are usually 2-year programmes - where institutions deliver T Levels over 3 years to accommodate students undertaking a 12 month long industry placement, we will only fund the T Level for the first 2 years of the programme
• funding for 18-year-olds will attract the full T Level rate because T Levels have fixed hours
• industry placement funding at a flat rate of £550, with half paid in the first year and half in the second
• extra disadvantage funding to reflect the larger T Level programme and bursary element 2b funding
• funding bands and PCW driven by the occupational specialism rather than the programme’s core aim
• planned hours that reflect the whole 2-year programme rather than the academic year

Identifying T Level student numbers

For academic year 2026 to 2027 funding allocations, we continue to use the same methodology as applied for academic year 2025 to 2026. We base your T Level student numbers on:

• your estimated new starter numbers across the funding bands (submitted in October 2025 through the T Level data collection)
• the number of carry-over students identified from academic year 2025 to 2026, in your 2025 to 2026 ILR R04 or autumn 2025 school census return (2025 T Level cohort) - we select T Level students in bands 5 to 9 where the planned end date of the latest T Level programme aim is after 31 July 2026 and where there is no actual end date

It is important that you accurately record planned hours so that we calculate your funding correctly. Read our record your T Level data correctly guidance to help with this. It contains examples of how you should record T Level programme elements and scenarios in your data returns.

Identification of student numbers from 2027 to 2028

We are making a change to the funding methodology from academic year 2027 to 2028. From that year forward, we will base your funding allocations solely on student numbers from the start of the previous academic year as returned in your ILR (R04) or school census (autumn on roll pupils) data return. We will, therefore, no longer require institutions to submit estimated student numbers to inform allocations for 2027 to 2028 and beyond.

There will be no T Levels registration application process for institutions planning to introduce T Levels from academic year 2027 to 2028.

We will maintain an in-year reconciliation process to account for over or under-delivery.

We will keep the funding approach under review and we will communicate further details at a later date. 

Distribution of T Level students across funding bands

T Level student numbers form part of the overall 16 to 19 student numbers within your 16 to 19 funding allocation.

T Level students will, in the main, be students who would otherwise have taken other 16 to 19 funded programmes. This means that introducing T Levels does not increase your total lagged student numbers, it only changes the funding bands in which those students are placed.

Once T Level numbers are determined, we redistribute those numbers from the band 5 into the T Level funding bands 5 to 9, as shown in table 1, while keeping your overall 16 to 19 lagged students number the same for the academic year.

Table 1

Funding bands 1 to 5	Lagged students before agreeing T Level numbers	Funding bands 1 to 9	Lagged and T Level students after agreeing T Level numbers
-	-	T Level band 9	0
-	-	T Level band 8 - uplifted	20
-	-	T Level band 8	0
-	-	T Level band 7 - uplifted	40
-	-	T Level band 7	0
-	-	T Level band 6 - uplifted	40
-	-	T Level band 6	0
-	-	T Level band 5	0
Band 5	500	Band 5	400
Band 4	200	Band 4	200
Band 3	100	Band 3	100
Band 2	100	Band 2	100
Band 1	100	Band 1	100
Total	1,000	Total	1,000

Without T Levels, these students would have taken other 16 to 19 courses and been funded as a study programme band 5. The additional funding that band 6 to 9 T Level students attract is therefore the difference between their T Level band and band 5. If a T Level student’s planned hours place them in band 5, we do not add any additional planned hours funding. Where a student’s planned hours place them in band 7, this represents a band 5 student already within your lagged numbers plus the extra funding required to reach the band 7 rate.

As with all other students, T Level students will attract all formulaic elements, for example, PCWs, retention and disadvantage. In addition, T Level students across all bands attract industry placements funding and associated student costs through bursary element 2b.

T Level in-year reconciliation process

We check whether you have delivered more or fewer T Level students than your allocated student numbers by reviewing your data in-year. To do this, we review your first data return of the year:

• R04 ILR return for 2026 to 2027
• school census autumn return 2026

Then we compare your actual T Level enrolments against your initial allocated numbers.

If you have fewer T Level band 5 to 9 students than planned (under-delivery):

• we will reduce your original allocated T Level student numbers to match your actual T Level numbers in each T Level band 5 to 9, recalculate your allocation and issue another allocation statement in spring 2027
• the number of students that make up the difference between your original allocated T Level student numbers and your actual T Level numbers in each T Level band 5 to 9, will return to the band 5 - all funding bands (the bands 1 to 5 and the T Level bands 5 to 9 are shown in table 1)

As explained in Distribution of T Level students across funding bands , the additional funding T Level band 6 to 9 students attract is the difference between their T Level band and band 5, including all associated formulaic elements. All T Level students, across all bands, also attract industry placement funding and the associated bursary element 2b. When your T Level student numbers are reduced, we remove this additional funding for the number of students that make up the difference between your initial allocation and your actual delivery.

Similarly, if you have more students than planned (over-delivery), we will increase your T Level student numbers, taking them from the band 5 into the relevant T Level band. These T Level students will attract all additional T Level funding elements: the difference between the T Level band and the band 5 as well as all formulaic elements linked to that difference in the funding bands plus industry placement funding and associated bursary element 2b funding.

Important

For audit purposes, you must record data accurately in your first mandatory return (R04 and autumn school census), as this is what we use for in-year reconciliation. Read Record your T Level data correctly for support. You will find a checklist and examples of T Level programme elements and scenarios that explain how you should record your data returns.

We may also compare your first data return of the year against your last data return of the year. If the final data return shows that your in-year data is inaccurate, we will recover some or all of the T Level funding we allocated back in spring 2026. We would not allocate more funding as a result of this end-of-year exercise.

We do not accept business cases for in-year changes to 2026 to 2027 student numbers, including where you fail to submit accurate data in the R04 or autumn school census for 2026 to 2027.

We will, however, accept business cases within the published thresholds if data errors have an impact on your next year’s allocation (for academic year 2027 to 2028).

In-year growth in overall student numbers

The in-year growth process will apply if recruitment to T Levels results in an overall increase in lagged student numbers. This process is subject to affordability. In-year growth does not apply to independent learning providers, which are subject to separate funding reconciliation arrangements, and academies funded on estimates that are subject to pupil number adjustment.

Funding bands and planned hours

How funding bands are determined for each occupational specialism

We have introduced T Levels in different waves. This means they are available for delivery from different academic years. We assign a funding band to each T Level occupational specialism. We have set out this information in the 2026 to 2027 T Level and foundation year programme cost weightings and funding bands list.

The funding bands for each T Level occupational specialism reflect the expected guided learning hours (GLHs) for the core and specialist content of each T Level.

We assign each specialism a funding band based on:

• GLHs for the core component
• GLHs for the occupational specialism
• 150 hours non-qualification planned hours for employability, enrichment, and pastoral (EEP)
• 80 additional hours to reflect the 40 additional hours applied to band 5 for each academic year since 2022 to 2023 (when the minimum planned hours rose from 540 to 580 hours) 
• 100 hours for the early years educator occupational specialism only, for the required observation during industry placement

Example

The Marketing T Level is made up of 500 core GLHs + 600 occupational GLHs + 150 EEP hours + 80 additional hours = 1,330 planned hours. This places this occupational specialism in Band 6 (1,180–1,379 planned hours), as per table 2 below.

For the early years educator occupational specialism only, we expect that you should deliver 100 additional hours as part of the necessary observation on the industry placement as set out in the Education and Early Years technical qualification specification. These 100 hours, for this T Level only, should be counted and recorded as planned hours.

Funding bands used for T Levels and minimum planned hours

We expect that you will deliver at least the minimum planned hours across the 2 years unless there are exceptional circumstances. If planned hours fall below the minimum, we will allocate funding at the lower band. Students on occupational specialisms that attract the uplifted rate will be placed in the lower band at an uplifted rate if available (only bands 6, 7 and 8 are uplifted).

For students to be recorded in the correct funding band, you must record planned hours for the total planned duration (over 2 years, not annually).

Example

If a student’s planned hours are 1,200 across 2 years (between the start date in academic year 1 and the planned end date in academic year 2) and you plan to deliver 600 hours in each academic year, you must record this in the ILR or school census as 1,200 planned hours across 2 years. If you record 600 hours, we will fund the student in band 5. Read record your T Level data correctly guidance for support.

Table 2 shows the minimum hours for each band. To note that the 3 new ‘uplifted’ funding bands have the same minimum planned hours as their non-uplifted equivalents. We show the 5% uplift in the funding rates section, table 3.

Table 2

T Level Band	Minimum planned hours required for the band
T Level Band 9	1,730 hours
T Level Band 8 – uplifted	1,580 hours
T Level Band 8	1,580 hours
T Level Band 7 – uplifted	1,380 hours
T Level Band 7	1,380 hours
T Level Band 6 – uplifted	1,180 hours
T Level Band 6	1,180 hours

T Level band 5

Band 5 T Levels are those where the programmes are not large enough to require funding in band 6 or above. As with other T Levels, you must record the planned hours across the full 2-year programme. Our funding approach allows flexibility where those hours are distributed unevenly over the 2 years, for example due to industry placements falling mostly in one or other year.

Principles 

Below are some important principles for you to note:

• we do not fund at a higher band than the one set for the student’s occupational specialism, even if planned hours exceed the minimum for a higher band
• to receive the funding rate for a band, you must record at least the minimum planned hours for that band
• if recorded hours fall below the minimum, funding will be at the lower band and students on occupational specialisms that attract the uplifted rate will be placed in the lower band at an uplifted rate if available (bands 6, 7 and 8 only)

Example

If you record less than 1,180 hours for a student’s programme, which is the minimum planned hours for band 6, we will fund you as a band 5 or below. You will need to deliver and record more qualification hours and/or teaching or non-qualification hours (EEP) to meet the minimum hours for the band.

Planned hours are less than the minimum hours

In exceptional circumstances, it may be appropriate to offer fewer hours, for instance where a student has significant, relevant prior learning. In those instances, you must record the correct planned hours in the ILR or school census.

Where these are below the minimum for the T Level, we will fund at the appropriate lower band. Where all the components of the T Level are recorded, all the additional features of a T Level will be retained. We will continue to fund the T Level without a reduction for 18-year-olds and pay the industry placement and bursary element 2b where appropriate.

Recording your planned hours accurately

Read record your T Level data correctly guidance for support. You will find a checklist and examples of T Level programme elements and scenarios that explain how you should record your data returns.

Errors in recording data

Some T Level providers have previously recorded students incorrectly in the ILR or school census, so that they appear in funding bands 1 to 5. In some cases, this was because providers recorded the planned hours for 1 year only instead of 2.

You must record planned hours for the total planned duration, over 2 years, not annually. If a student’s planned hours are 1,200 across 2 years (between the start date in academic year 1 and the planned end date in academic year 2) and you plan to deliver 600 hours in each academic year, you must record this in the ILR or school census as 1,200 planned hours across 2 years. If you record 600 hours, we will fund the student in band 5. 

Read record your T Level data correctly guidance for support and use the checklist provided. 

For the purposes of T Level in-year reconciliation, we do not accept business cases for changes to 2026 to 2027 student numbers, including where you fail to submit accurate data in the R04 or autumn school census for 2026 to 2027. Making errors in recording your T Level data could therefore have a significant financial impact because it:

• could lead to a larger than expected recovery of funding at the T Level funding reconciliation point in early 2027
• will also have an impact on the number of allocated T Level students funded for academic year 2027 to 2028, as we will use your 2026 to 2027 R04 and autumn school census data (for both new starts and continuers) to produce your next year’s allocations

Funding rates specific to T Levels and targeted 5% uplift

For funding bands 6 and above, T Levels attract higher rates because they have more teaching hours, and we are more prescriptive about what is delivered and the contents of a course than for 16 to 19 study programmes.

T Level funding rates also include a specific 5% uplift for academic year 2026 to 2027 for all technical qualifications introduced from academic year 2022 to 2023 onwards. This uplift supports providers with the higher delivery costs associated with early rollout and programme growth. These qualifications and related occupational specialisms are set at bands 6 to 8, so we have introduced new uplifted versions of these bands. Technical qualifications introduced before academic year 2022 to 2023 will not attract this uplift, even if their occupational specialisms were introduced after that point. We have set out this information in the 2026 to 2027 T Level and foundation year programme cost weightings and funding bands list.

Usually, a T Level programme will last 2 years and we publish the funding rate for the whole programme. We fund students at different rates in the 2 years of their programmes, depending on the applicable rates for each academic year. We pay 50% of the funding rate each year, using the applicable rate in effect for that year.

The rates in table 3 include the 2026 to 2027 T Level rates and the funding rates for academic year 2027 to 2028 are still to be confirmed.

We do not usually pay any additional funding for students who continue on their T Level into a third year. We will only fund students for one further year when they meet the criteria for a funded retake set out in the funding rules.

You can see the full T Level funding rates in table 3. 

Table 3

Band	50% of the T Level funding rate per student, in 2026 to 2027	T Level funding rate
T Level Band 9	£7,386	£14,772
T Level Band 8 – uplifted	£7,111	£14,222
T Level Band 8	£6,772	£13,544
T Level Band 7 – uplifted	£6,466	£12,932
T Level Band 7	£6,158	£12,316
T Level Band 6 - uplifted	£5,607	£11,214
T Level Band 6	£5,340	£10,680
T Level Band 5	£5,133	£10,266

All funding rates for academic year 2027 to 2028 are still to be confirmed.

Retention

T Levels are recorded as 2-year programmes, with retention calculated on an annual basis. When students are on a 2-year programme and they complete the first year, they will be counted as retained in that academic year. We define completing the first year as being in learning on the last working day in June. The same principle applies in the second year.

Programme cost weightings 

We use PCWs because we recognise that some programmes are more costly to deliver than others.

PCWs for 2026 to 2027

In academic year 2026 to 2027, there are 7 PCWs for study programmes and T Levels use the same 7 PCWs.

You can find full details for PCWs by sector subject area (SSA) for this academic year in our rates and formula guidance for 2026 to 2027.

Approach to allocating PCWs for T Levels

We apply PCWs to T Levels in a different way from 16 to 19 study programmes. We apply the PCW at the occupational specialism level. This is because the qualification structure for T Levels is different from study programmes.

We have worked with Skills England to map T Levels to apprenticeship standards. As part of this mapping, we apply a consistent link to SSAs and PCWs and allocate a single PCW to each T Level occupational specialism.

Where occupational specialisms within a T Level map to more than 2 SSAs and PCWs, we have applied the majority PCW, that is the one that has most specialisms mapped to it. We have explained this in table 4.

You can see all the PCWs for T Level routes and occupational specialisms in annex A of the rates and formula guidance.

Table 4

T Level	Specialism	Apprenticeship standard name	SSA name	Study programme PCW	Occupational specialism PCW to be applied to T Levels
Design surveying and planning	Surveying and design for construction and the built environment	Digital engineering technician	Building and construction	1.73	1.73
Design surveying and planning	Surveying and design for construction and the built environment	Surveying technician	Building and construction	1.73	1.73
Design surveying and planning	Surveying and design for construction and the built environment	Geospatial survey technician	Geography	1	1.73

PCW for T Level Foundation Year (formerly T Level Transition Programme)

T Level foundation year programmes are linked to T Level routes. When the routes cover multiple SSAs and multiple weightings, we assign an average weighting. You can find full details for PCWs for all foundation years in the 2026 to 2027 T Level and foundation year programme cost weightings and funding bands list.

Weighting multiplier used for the PCW calculations

We show the planned hours used to calculate the weighting multiplier in table 5. This is to recognise the size of the T Levels in calculations. You can find the full details in the 16 to 19 funding: allocation calculation toolkit guides guidance.

Table 5

T Level Band	Minimum planned hours required for the band	Planned hours used to calculate weighting multiplier	Weighting multiplier
T Level Band 9	1,730 hours	1,830 hours	915
T Level Band 8 – uplifted	1,580 hours	1,680 hours	840
T Level Band 8	1,580 hours	1,680 hours	840
T Level Band 7 – uplifted	1,380 hours	1,530 hours	765
T Level Band 7	1,380 hours	1,530 hours	765
T Level Band 6 – uplifted	1,180 hours	1,330 hours	665
T Level Band 6	1,180 hours	1,330 hours	665
T Level Band 5	580 hours	640 hours	640

The minimum planned and weighting multiplier hours for the T Level Band 5 are the same as for the study programme band 5. You must record the planned hours across the full 2-year programme, even when T Levels attract band 5 funding. Our funding approach allows flexibility where those hours are distributed unevenly over the 2 years, for example due to industry placements falling mostly in one or other year.

English and maths

English and maths funding

Our 16 to 19 funding: English and maths funding page provides full details on how we calculate this and how we will pay you.

Maths and English condition of funding

Students must be supported to improve their maths and/or English skills as part of their 16 to 19 study programmes or T Levels, where they do not hold a GCSE grade 9 to 4 (a level 2 pass grade) or equivalent qualification in these subjects.

This requirement is a condition of funding and we remove funding from future allocations for students who do not meet it. For academic year 2026 to 2027, this will impact funding allocations in academic year 2028 to 2029.

Disadvantage funding 

We explain how we calculate disadvantage funding in our funding rates and formula guidance.

Disadvantage funding works the same way as for study programmes with 2 exceptions:

1. The calculation of the overall economic deprivation factor takes into account students’ individual programme size by using the weighting multiplier shown in table 5. There will be a higher block 1 funding amount for T Levels band 6 to 9 as these T Levels have more planned hours than study programmes.
2. There is a T Level rate of £825 for block 2 disadvantage for T Level students that attract band 6 to 9, as shown in table 5. This is because T Levels are large, demanding programmes and additional support will be needed for students with special educational needs, low attainment and disabilities, including when they are on an industry placement. T Level band 5 students will attract £609 for block 2 disadvantage. You can see an example of how we calculate the number of instances of disadvantage block 2 for T Level students funded at band 6 to 9 in table 5.

Table 6

Total number of students	Number of instances for maths and English	Instances per student	T Level students bands 6 to 9	Number of instances of block 2 funding for T Level students
1,000	350	0.35	40	14

The first 3 columns in the table use lagged 2024 to 2025 data. From this, dividing 350 maths and English instances by 1,000 students gives an average of 0.35 instances per student.

The number of T Level students in bands 6 to 9 comes from your 2026 to 2027 data, which includes both new starters and continuing students. We apply the average instances per student (0.35) to the 40 T Level students to calculate how many of the institution’s total instances will attract the T Level block 2 disadvantage rate of £825.

A T Level Student in 2026 to 2027 without maths and English would attract 2 instances towards the instances per student factor to be used in the 2028 to 2029 funding calculation.

High value courses premium 

The high value courses premium (HVCP) is additional funding to encourage and support delivery of selected level 3 courses, including T Levels, in subjects that lead to higher wage returns, to enable a more productive economy.

The HVCP for construction will apply in academic year 2026 to 2027 and provides a higher rate of additional funding to encourage and support delivery of selected level 2 and level 3 qualifications including T Levels in sector subject area 5.2 (building and construction) to support an increase in skilled construction workers.

Our HVCP guidance provides full details on how we calculate this and how we will pay you.

Industry placements

Industry placements are a compulsory part of a T Level and must be delivered in line with the industry placements delivery guidance. We fund institutions a total of £550 per T Level student (regardless of the funding band assigned to the student) for the industry placement element of the T Level programme, £275 per student in each of the 2 years of the T Level.

This funding is to support the infrastructure and resource required to plan, source, deliver and monitor industry placements. It is not to support employer costs for hosting placements. 

You must record industry placement hours in the work placement entity and not in the planned hours. You will need to record a minimum of 315 industry placement hours (or 750 hours for the Early Years Educator and 600 hours for the Dental Nursing occupational specialisms). 

Managing students’ T Level choices and transfers

T Level choices: registering students on T Levels 

We expect students to decide their T Level technical qualification and occupational specialism within the first few weeks of their course, supported by good information, advice and guidance from their institution.

If an institution is offering multiple occupational specialisms within the same technical qualification, there may be some co-delivery or other activity in the first few weeks that provides students with the opportunity to find out about different occupations, for example through employer visits.

You must record a T Level technical qualification and an associated occupational specialism for each T Level student in the ILR R04 or autumn school census returns of year 1 so that we fund you correctly as we use these data returns to reconcile your T Level funding in-year.

Transfers

Students may change their T Level technical qualification or occupational specialism after the ILR R04 or autumn school census return of year 1, and sometimes after the end of year 1. Where this results in a different funding band, we will apply the change in funding through the in-year reconciliation of year 2, using the ILR R04 and autumn school census returns of that year.

To ensure that there is sufficient time to cover the curriculum, decisions about occupational specialisms should be confirmed by the end of the first year, although this could be much earlier depending on an institution’s curriculum model. Some providers begin teaching the occupational specialism early in year 1, while others start in year 2.

Institutions should consider the degree of overlap between the 2 T Levels and the remaining time before any assessments in determining if a transfer is possible or whether a student will need to restart their T Level. Attainment from one T Level technical qualification cannot count towards another, and all students will need to take and pass the relevant assessments to pass their T Level.

If a student transfers to a study programme, we will base funding on the planned hours of the study programme.

You can find details on how to record data for transfers and examples in the record your T Level data correctly guidance.

T Level students who start part way through the year

Students usually start T Levels at the beginning of an academic year. There may be some students who have sufficient prior learning for whom it is appropriate to join a group part way through the year. 

In these instances, you must record the total hours that you plan to deliver across the length of the T Level from the point of enrolment, not the hours that you would typically deliver for 2 full years. We will calculate the level of funding that will apply to those planned hours. We will then distribute this funding over the length of the T Level programme in a similar way to part-year study programmes. 

T Level programme and a study programme in the same funding year

We will not fund students to take more than one full-time learning programme or the equivalent in multiple part-time programmes, in one institution, in one funding year. We will only fund the latest programme that has been recorded in the funding year.

Audit and monitoring

We audit and monitor T Levels as part of the usual 16 to 19 funding audit process.