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Rules and guidance about assessment in Technical Qualifications
Rules and regulations for new Functional Skills qualifications in mathematics
Details, by awarding organisation, of the different assessment options available for functional skills in 2021.
Guide for teachers and heads explaining GCSE and A level grading: how marking works, how grade boundaries are set, and how student grades are determined fairly.
Rules and regulations for GCSEs (9 to 1) in English language.
Guide to the submission process
Rules and regulations for GCSEs (9 to 1) in single science subjects (biology, chemistry, physics)
Pearson has agreed to pay a fine of £750,000 over failure to identify and reduce the risk of inconsistency in grading standards over GCSE English.
This document is part of a suite of documents which sets out our regulatory requirements for awarding organisations offering apprenticeship assessments.
Confirmed apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs) for standards regulated by Ofqual.
Rules and guidance on standard setting in Technical Qualifications
Rules and guidance about assessment objectives and assessment strategies for Technical Qualifications
Part of a suite of documents setting out our regulatory requirements for awarding organisations offering vocational and technical qualifications affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The types (or descriptions) of regulated qualifications that you can apply to develop, deliver and award.
Guide to the data submission process
Pearson has agreed to pay a fine of £505,000 after it failed to comply with its Conditions of Recognition in relation to the setting and marking of assessments for A level Chinese.
Dates for last teaching, last exams and resits in legacy GCSEs, AS and A levels.
The Regulated Qualifications Framework will replace the QCF and NQF.
How qualifications in England and Northern Ireland relate to those of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
These conditions and requirements apply to Entry Level, Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications that are approved for public funding by the Secretary of State as a Progression Qualification.
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