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Our post-16 vocational qualifications will equip your learners with the skills and knowledge they need to
progress to higher education, apprenticeships—and ultimately a rewarding career.

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Update on proposed defunding for 16-19 qualifications

Update 14 October 2022

On 11 May 2022, the DfE published the provisional list of qualifications that will no longer be funded from academic year 2024/25 for 16-19 learners in England, because they overlap with T Level Waves 1 and 2. 41 were Pearson qualifications.

Of the qualifications on the list, we did not appeal 25 qualifications because they were either being withdrawn as part of our usual cycle of updating and renewing our qualifications, they were not affected by the review process, or they did not meet the criteria for appeal.

Of the 16 qualifications we did appeal, we are pleased today to let you know that 12 out of those 16 appeals were successful. This means that these qualifications will continue to be funded. This decision shows the DfE has recognised that BTEC qualifications continue to be valued by learners, schools, colleges, universities, and employers and are not replaced by T Levels.

We are still awaiting the appeal outcome for the Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Health and Social Care (601/7194/7) which is expected later this year and we will let you know as soon as we receive the appeal outcome. In the interim if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0345 618 0440.

Please find today’s DfE statement.

Qualifications successfully appealed:

601/7591/6: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Engineering
601/7580/1: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Engineering
601/7588/6: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Engineering
601/7582/5: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering
601/7589/8: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering
601/7583/7: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
601/7590/4: Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
603/5840/3: Pearson BTEC Level 3 Foundation Award in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Technical Knowledge)
601/9053/X: Pearson BTEC Level 3 Award in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Technical Knowledge)
601/9049/8: Pearson BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Technical Knowledge)
601/9054/1: Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Technical Knowledge)
601/9060/7: Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Technical Knowledge)

Qualifications we were unsuccessful in appealing:

We will be publishing a full funding guide to BTEC Level 3 qualifications shortly. This will give you a comprehensive picture of funding in the academic years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 and we will let you know as soon as it is available.

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BTEC Results Day 2022

BTEC Results Day 2022 information and support for centres covering BTEC, Functional Skills and T Levels results.

We have now issued results for all BTEC students that were expecting one, and are now working with schools and colleges to support them and their learners through the new academic year.

We are currently undertaking a detailed review into the 2022 awarding series, and are gathering input and feedback from students, schools, colleges and the wider education community.

If you need any support please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am- 6:00pm), DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media, or via our online portal for further support.

The diagram shows the process of awarding a result, with the sections in red showing how this year’s process was different:

BTEC Assessment Explainer — View the diagram in PDF format

Update 26 August

We have now issued all results for students with UCAS applications that are eligible for a BTEC National Level 3 qualification. We have contacted every school or college with currently ineligible learners to discuss their cases and are grateful for the support from exams officers and other colleges in resolving queries and providing information.

We will continue to work with a handful of schools and colleges to review queries and to confirm whether or not they expect learners that are currently ineligible to meet the qualification criteria.

Our dedicated team will work closely with schools and colleges to obtain and validate information for any new claims that we receive. We are also sharing regular updates with UCAS and higher education institutions.

We are grateful for the patience of students, and our partnership with schools, colleges and UCAS to get results to students as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone involved.

We understand that this situation has been very difficult for students and their families. We will be undertaking a detailed review into this awarding series. Starting in September, we will be seeking input and feedback from students, schools, colleges and the wider education community. We look forward to working with all our stakeholders to identify improvements to future awarding cycles.

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Update 25 August

We wanted to share the progress we are making to reduce the number of ineligible BTEC National Level 3 results for students who need them for university admissions.

By Results Day on Thursday 18 August, we had issued around 200,000 results
We continue to award BTEC National Level 3 results to students with confirmed UCAS applications, with another 110 released in the last 24 hours
As of today, this leaves approximately 790 ineligible claims for results for students’ UCAS applications because we do not have all the information we need to award a grade.
Our dedicated team continues to work closely with schools and colleges to obtain and validate any outstanding information.

We are sorry that some of you are still waiting. Our priority is to ensure that all eligible students receive their results. We are grateful for the patience of students, and our partnership with schools, colleges and UCAS to get results to students as soon as possible.

We understand that this situation has been very difficult for students and their families. We will be undertaking a detailed review into this awarding series. Starting in September, we will be seeking input and feedback from students, schools, colleges and the wider education community. We look forward to working with all our stakeholders to identify improvements to future awarding cycles.

For more information on how BTECs are assessed and awarded please see here.

If I am a learner with a missing result, what should I do?

Please contact your school or college. We are sending grades to them all the time so please keep checking in so that they know you are still waiting.

If you are holding a university offer, UCAS has told us that the best thing to do is to call the university and let them know you are still interested. Places will be held for you until at least August 31. If helpful, we can also call the university for you to explain the situation.

Please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am - 7:00pm), DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media, or via our online portal for further support.

If you are a school or college with missing results?

Please call us on 0344 463 2535 and we will work with you to resolve any queries as fast as we can. Common action that you might need to consider taking includes:

making a ‘claim’ for the result
completing unit grades for learners (such as submitting all unit grades, UTAGs, or a special consideration application) to make them eligible for the grade you are claiming

Please rest assured that we will work with you to resolve these as quickly as is humanly possible. It may also help you to refer to our existing guide here.

Update 24 August

Here is today’s update on the progress we are making to reduce the number of outstanding BTEC National Level 3 results for students who need them for university admissions.

By Results Day on Thursday 18 August, we had issued around 200,000 results
Since then we have sent an additional 2,450 BTEC National Level 3 results to UCAS, including more than 250 in the past 24 hours.
As of today, there are approximately 900 outstanding claims for results for students’ UCAS applications that do not meet the BTEC Level 3 qualification criteria.
Our dedicated team continues to work closely with schools and colleges to obtain and validate any outstanding information.

We understand that this is a very difficult time for those who are still waiting for results. Our priority is to ensure that all eligible students receive their results. We want to reassure students that exam boards have well established procedures to share data with UCAS throughout this period while they work through clearing.

We are grateful for the patience of students, and our partnership with schools, colleges and UCAS to get outstanding results to students as soon as possible. For more information on how BTECs are assessed and awarded please see here.

If I am a learner with a missing result, what should I do?

Please contact your school or college. We are sending grades to them all the time so please keep checking in so that they know you are still waiting.

If you are holding a university offer, UCAS has told us that the best thing to do is to call the university and let them know you are still interested. Places will be held for you until at least August 31. If helpful, we can also call the university for you to explain the situation.

Please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am - 7:00pm), DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media, or via our online portal for further support.

If you are a school or college with missing results?

Please call us on 0344 463 2535 and we will work with you to resolve any queries as fast as we can. Common action that you might need to consider taking includes:

making a ‘claim’ for the result
completing unit grades for learners (such as submitting all unit grades, UTAGs, or a special consideration application) to make them eligible for the grade you are claiming

Please rest assured that we will work with you to resolve these as quickly as is humanly possible. It may also help you to refer to our existing guide here.

Update 23 August

We want to share an update on the progress we are making to reduce the number of outstanding BTEC National Level 3 results for students who need them for university admissions. 

By Results Day on Thursday 18 August, we had issued around 200,000 results 
Since 18 August we have sent an additional 2,200 BTEC National Level 3 results to UCAS, including nearly 300 in the past 24 hours.  
As of today, there are approximately 1,100 outstanding claims for results for students’ UCAS applications that do not meet the BTEC Level 3 qualification criteria.  
We have a dedicated team in place to work around the clock with schools and colleges to obtain and validate any outstanding information.

We understand that this is a very difficult time for those who are still waiting for results. Our priority is to ensure that all eligible students receive their grades.   

We want to reassure students that exam boards have well established procedures to share data with UCAS throughout this period while they work through clearing.  

We are grateful for the patience of students and our partnership with schools, colleges and UCAS to get outstanding results to students as soon as possible.  

If I am a learner with a missing result, what should I do? 

Please contact your school or college. We are sending grades to them all the time so please keep checking in so that they know you are still waiting. 

If you are holding a university offer, UCAS has told us that the best thing to do is to call the university and let them know you are still interested. Places will be held for you until at least August 31st. If helpful, we can also call the university for you to explain the situation. 

Please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am- 7:00pm), DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media, or via our online portal for further support. 

If you are a school or college with missing results?

Please call us on 0344 463 2535 and we will work with you to resolve any queries as fast as we can. Common action that you might need to consider taking includes: 

making a ‘claim’ for the result 
completing unit grades for learners (such as submitting all unit grades, UTAGs, or a special consideration application) to make them eligible for the grade you are claiming

Please rest assured that we will work with you to resolve these as quickly as is humanly possible.  It may also help you to refer to our existing guide (PDF | 2.8MB).

Update 22 August

We are very sorry that some of you are still waiting for your BTEC National results. We awarded hundreds more results over the weekend and will continue to work around the clock with schools and colleges to obtain and validate any outstanding information. However, we appreciate how difficult it must be if you are still waiting.

We wanted to give you an update on progress so far for those learners who need their result to secure a university place:

By Results Day on Thursday August 18, we had issued around 200,000 results
Of those, 100,000 BTEC National results were provided to UCAS for those learners using their BTEC as part of an application to progress to university, with the rest using their BTEC results to go straight into a fulfilling career
Since Thursday, we have sent another 1,950 BTEC National results to UCAS.

We understand the pressure on students and we want to reassure them that it is normal for exam boards to send updates to UCAS after results day for all qualifications. That’s exactly why we have tried and tested procedures in place with UCAS to share data with them throughout this period as they work through clearing. The numbers we are sharing here are similar to what they were in 2019, when exams were last sat.

As a reminder, BTECs are a modular qualification and in order for us to be able to award an overall result, we require grades to be provided for each unit and a claim made to receive the qualification. Many BTEC National students use their BTEC to apply to university through UCAS and just as many use their BTEC to go straight into a fulfilling career at different points in the year.

Thanks to the close co-operation from schools and colleges, where exams officers and other staff are working diligently with us to resolve queries, we will continue to issue results during the days ahead as new information becomes available to us. We are also working closely with UCAS and higher education institutions to keep them updated. We are grateful for their partnership, as well as that of parents, students, schools and colleges in resolving any outstanding issues and helping us get results to students as soon as possible.

If I am a learner with a missing result, what should I do?

Please contact your school or college. We are sending grades to them all the time so please keep checking in so that they know you are still waiting.

If you are holding a university offer, UCAS has told us that the best thing to do is to call the university and let them know you are still interested. Places will be held for you until at least August 31st. If helpful, we can also call the university for you to explain the situation.

Please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am- 7:00pm), DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media, or via our online portal for further support.

If you are a school or college with missing results?

Please call us on 0344 463 2535 and we will work with you to resolve any queries as fast as we can. Common action that you might need to consider taking includes:

making a ‘claim’ for the result
completing unit grades for learners (such as submitting all unit grades, UTAGs, or a special consideration application) to make them eligible for the grade you are claiming

Please rest assured that we will work with you to resolve these as quickly as is humanly possible. It may also help you to refer to our existing guide here: btec-results-day-eligibility-guidance.pdf (pearson.com).

How are BTECs awarded and what happened this year?

BTECs are a type of modular vocational qualification. They were created and designed to give students flexibility and the option to choose their own learning journey. Learners can roll on and roll off the course depending on what’s happening in their lives and it’s often not the simple two year linear path followed by A level students.

Schools and colleges know their learners best and so we rely on them to let us know when a student has completed and is ready to claim their result. Students study a mix of internal units that are assessed by their school or college at the end of each module, and external units more like exams that are marked by Pearson.

In order to award an overall grade, we need the school or college to let us know the student is ready by claiming their award and giving us input on the student’s internally assessed unit grades. We then combine that with our external assessment data to award a final result. Without all the data we need, we are unable to award an overall result.

Covid certainly complicated things. This year, as well as the usual internal unit assessment data, in some cases different information was also needed. Some students have teacher assessed unit grades (U-Tags) from their studies in 2020 or 2021 where education was disrupted by lockdown, and there are others who missed whole units owing to illness and have been given special consideration grades for units they were unable to complete.

We will continue to work urgently on any missing results until resolved.

Update 21 August

Thank you for your continued patience - our team are working closely with schools and colleges to resolve any remaining outstanding results as fast as possible. We have been releasing hundreds of results to students throughout the day today. If you haven’t already done so, please phone us on 0345 618 0440 or DM us @PearsonBTEC so we can support you directly.

If you’ve already given us your details, we will be in touch as soon as we possibly can. We may need to ask you for further information, so please check for any communications from us.

For those that have applied to university, UCAS has told us that the best thing a student can do is contact their university of choice directly, so that they know they want the offered place and can hold it. Or we are also happy to call their university to explain the situation.

We are very grateful to schools and colleges continuing to work with us tirelessly to resolve any remaining issues and get results to students as quickly as possible. Your ongoing support is much appreciated.

Update 20 August

We are very sorry that some students are still waiting for their results. We are making progress – our team is delivering hundreds more results today and please rest assured we are here all weekend working to resolve this. But we understand how difficult it must be if you are one of the students still without your result.

We are grateful to the schools and colleges that are working with us around the clock to resolve any remaining issues and get results to students as quickly as possible. They are working tirelessly with us and their partnership is much appreciated.

BTECs are a modular qualification and in order for us to award an overall result, we require grades to be provided for each unit and a claim made to receive the qualification.

We urge any student still waiting for their results to please call us on 0345 618 0440, DM us via @PearsonBTEC on social media or via our online portal.

For those students that have applied to university, UCAS has told us that the best thing a student can do is contact their university of choice directly, so that they know they want the offered place and can hold it. But we are also happy to call their university to explain the situation.

Update 19 August

We wanted to provide an update to you all on progress today. Although results for the majority of students have been delivered, we are very sorry that some of you are still waiting. We appreciate how difficult this must be for you.

UCAS has told us that the best thing a student can do is contact their university of choice directly, so that they know you want the offered place and ask them to hold it for you.

BTECs are a modular qualification and in order for us to award an overall result, we require unit grades and a claim to be made to receive the qualification. We are grateful to the schools and colleges who are working tirelessly with us to resolve any outstanding issues. We appreciate their partnership as we work together to get results to students as quickly as possible.

We have been resolving queries and releasing results to students throughout the day today. Please be assured we’ll be here all weekend to work on this and get more results out as soon as we can.

For anyone still waiting, please contact us on 0345 618 0440 (from 8:30am- 6:00pm), DM via @PearsonBTEC on social media or via our online portal for further support. 

Last updated 29 June 2022.

Vocational qualifications’ Summer Results Days 2022

BTEC Nationals, Firsts, Technicals and Tech Awards Results Day 2022

We hope that our comprehensive FAQs and dedicated Teaching, Learning and Assessment 2021/22 web page answer any outstanding questions you have about how results have been awarded this year.   You can also keep informed by following @PearsonBTEC, where we will update you with the latest information, or access our FAQ page, which is updated frequently. You can also contact us with any queries or concerns. Our social media is monitored from 8am-4pm, Monday-Friday and we welcome, and will respond to, any suggestions or feedback you have for us.

GCSE and A level qualifications Results for summer 2022

T Levels Results 2022

Pearson are responsible for delivering the two components (Core Component and Occupational Specialist Component) of the Technical Qualification for the T Level in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction, and the T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development. The Technical Qualification is one element of the T Level.

As part of our responsibility for these components Pearson also deliver assessment and results for the following components:

Core Component (which consists of the Core Examination and Employer Set Project)
Occupational Specialism.

Pearson will send component results to Providers on the 17 August 2022 via the EOL mailbox. This will consist of a Statement of Results (1 PDF per student) and a broadsheet of results for all students at the centre across all Technical Qualification components. The release of these component results to students are embargoed until 18 August 2022. Component results are not the same as overall T Level Results information, which will be provided by the Department for Education (DfE) through the Manage T Level Results Service.

Pearson also will transfer all component results to the DfE, who are responsible for the following elements:

Aggregating and issuing the overall T Level grade (this includes results from the two Technical Qualification components and the completion of the Industry Placement)
Issuing T Level Certificates and Statements of Achievement
Transfer of T Level grades to UCAS
The Industry Placement

For more information on these areas, please check out the DfE’s T Levels support for schools and colleges pages on gov.uk or contact the DfE using the ‘Contact Us’ option at the bottom of that page.

If you have queries specifically relating to the Manage T Level Results Service, please contact tlevel.resultsandcertification@education.gov.uk.

Functional Skills Results 2022

If you have a specific question about the Appeals process this year, or where your learners can find support, please review the information below:

Appeals process

For BTEC results for May/June 2022 external assessments, the appeals process that is detailed in the JCQ  Guide to Awarding Bodies’ Appeals Processes, June 2022, will apply.  

To supplement the JCQ Guide to Awarding Bodies’ Appeals Processes, June 2022, our BTEC Appeals Guidance Summer 2022 provides a summary of the appeals process for the May/June 2022 external assessments and also provides information on where the BTEC appeals process will differ from the arrangements detailed in the JCQ document.

In addition, we have designed a handy infographic which walks you through the BTEC Appeals process for May/June 2022 examinations, which we hope you find a useful summary.

Student support

We are very aware that your learners may need extra support in the run-up to and on Results Day. We would be very grateful if you could ensure that your learners are aware of where to find information and how to contact us should they need to.

We’ve put together Review of Marking and Appeals guidance for BTEC students which details the next steps if they are unhappy with their result, and also how to contact us should they have any questions. In addition, all the information relating to the appeals process, including timescales and deadlines can be found in the JCQ document: JCQ  Guide to Awarding Bodies’ Appeals Processes, June 2022.

Please also advise them that they can follow @PearsonBTEC, visit our student FAQ page, or check our dedicated student page which are both updated regularly with the latest information. And, that if they have any specific questions for us, they can contact us, where live chat is also available, or phone us on 0345 618 0440. Phone lines will open at 8:30am on Results Days.

Last updated 21 May 2022.

Review of Post 16 L3 qualifications

On 11th May, the Department for Education published the provisional list of technical qualifications that would be in scope for defunding from 1 August 2024 in England. Read our full response.