This year, learners successfully completing these Level 3 two-year courses - which award UCAS tariff points in line with three A Levels - will decide on their next steps. They will be considering whether to progress to skilled employment, in some cases through an apprenticeship, or to pursue higher levels of technical study at college or university. Of course it’s still early days for T Levels, too soon to say how these new qualifications will be received and valued both by industry and higher education.
Although there has been recent progress, there remains some uncertainty around which higher education institutions (HEIs) will accept T Levels as suitable qualifications for young people to gain entry to specific courses they offer. The DfE recently published a list of 126 HEIs, including half of the 20 Russell Group universities, which have confirmed that they will consider T Levels for entry on to at least one course in their institution. Given that T Levels are still a relatively unknown and untried qualification, it is perhaps no surprise that some HEIs are taking time to factor them into their admissions requirements, preferring instead to wait for T Levels to establish themselves.
