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Guidance on formats and timings for submitting data to Ofqual.
Criteria for assessing applications to be recognised by Ofqual to develop or award regulated qualifications.
How to interpret our rules, including defined terms
This document sets out Ofqual's regulatory requirements for awarding organisations offering Apprenticeship Assessments.
This advice note supports awarding organisations in understanding how existing rules and guidance apply to the risks of malpractice arising from use of AI tools.
How to use this handbook
Confirmed apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs) for standards regulated by Ofqual.
Guide to the submission process.
Additional rules and guidance for Technical Qualifications
Rules about providing information on qualification fees and features, packaging qualifications with other products or services, and invoicing.
Information for Level 3, Level 1/2 and Level 2 vocational and technical qualifications used for progression and taken alongside or in place of A-levels and GCSEs.
Grade descriptors for GCSEs graded 9 to 1. Designed to provide an indication of the likely level of performance at grades 2, 5 and 8.
This document sets out Ofqual's regulatory requirements for all Apprenticeship Assessments, which will come into effect on 1 April 2026.
Classroom resources designed to help teachers and school and college leaders develop an approach to the use of AI in assessed work, and to speak to students about it.
How qualifications in England and Northern Ireland relate to those of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
This notice issues Pearson with a formal rebuke from Ofqual’s Chief Regulator following a determination that it failed to comply with its Conditions of Recognition.
Rules and regulations for awarding organisations that submit data about exams.
Rules and regulations for new Functional Skills qualifications in English
Report allegations of malpractice to Ofqual and understand what to expect from us
Ofqual's formal legal list of Regulatory Documents (documents containing additional rules and guidance for regulated qualifications).
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