Principal learning qualifications

Performance descriptions and marking criteria.

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Guidance and regulation

• Infographic: Level 3 vocational and technical qualifications 2024
  • Guidance
  • 15 August 2024
  • Ofqual
• Vocational & technical qualifications, summer 2020: guidance for centres
  • Guidance
  • 14 April 2020
  • Ofqual
• Vocational & technical qualifications, summer 2020: guidance for students, parents & carers
  • Guidance
  • 22 May 2020
  • Ofqual
• Infographic: Level 3 vocational and technical qualifications 2023
  • Guidance
  • 17 August 2023
  • Ofqual

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News and communications

• Guide to the 2024 Level 3 qualification results for VTQs in England
  • 15 August 2024
  • Ofqual
  • News story
• Guide to the 2023 Level 3 qualification results for VTQs in England
  • 17 August 2023
  • Ofqual
  • News story
• Flying high with Dounreay STEM ambassadors
  • 5 July 2023
  • Closed organisation: Dounreay and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story
• Without skills, businesses are “driving with the handbrake on”
  • 22 June 2023
  • Department for Education, Department for Business and Trade, and HM Treasury
  • Press release
• Guide to the 2022 Level 3 qualification results for VTQs in England
  • 18 August 2022
  • Ofqual
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: October to December 2022
  • 16 March 2023
  • Ofqual
  • National statistics
• Delivery and award of vocational and technical qualifications in 2022
  • 15 December 2022
  • Ofqual
  • Research
• Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: July to September 2022
  • 13 December 2022
  • Ofqual
  • Official statistics
• Higher education graduate outcomes survey UK: 2019 to 2020
  • 16 June 2022
  • Higher Education Statistics Agency and Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Analysis of results: VTQs, 2021
  • 12 August 2021
  • Ofqual
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Withdrawing principal learning and Diploma rules
  • 28 June 2017
  • Ofqual
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 18 April 2017

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Department for Business & Trade
• HM Treasury

• Ofqual
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

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• Sellafield Ltd