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Organisations invited to develop and deliver T Levels
The Department for Education (DfE) has opened bidding for organisations to apply for the right to develop, deliver and award the first three T Levels from September 2020.
Organisations are being given the chance to develop these new, gold standard qualifications for technical education.
The first three T Levels in Construction, Digital, and Education and Childcare will be delivered from September 2020.
The Department for Education has launched the bidding process for groups to win the right to develop and deliver these new qualifications. Successful bidders will have exclusive rights to deliver each T Level qualification, to make sure it is high-quality, as recommended by Lord Sainsbury in his independent review of technical education in 2016.
Secondary school pupils starting GCSE courses this September will be the first students able to study a T Level when they are rolled out.
Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Anne Milton said: “It is really important that we select the organisations with the right vision, to get the best for the young people taking new T Levels. They will be key to upholding the quality of our reforms and making T Levels a success.
“Since we started developing T Levels we have taken an open and collaborative approach, including sharing the draft procurement documents with the sector to give potential bidders a genuine opportunity to influence how this procurement works.
“We want to continue working closely with them every step of the way so we get this once in a lifetime opportunity right.”
More than 200 employers have worked closely with the DfE to design the initial outline T Level content and have run pilots with over 2,000 young people to trial T Level style work placements.
Winning bidders will develop the outline content further and produce detailed qualification specifications, exams and assessments, which will be rolled out to the schools and colleges that will provide T Levels.
The Invitation to Tender will remain open for organisations to submit bids until 26 October 2018, with the contracts for the first three T Levels expected to be awarded in early March 2019.
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