The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) is delighted to announce the extension of the highly-successful, Department for Education (DfE) funded T Level Professional Development (TLPD) offer for academic years 2024–25 and 2025–26.
Following a successful pilot in 2019, the DfE commissioned ETF to deliver continuing professional development via the TLPD offer to teachers, support staff, leaders, and managers involved in the delivery of T Levels. The initial TLPD contract awarded to ETF ran from 2020 to 2024. Between May 2019 and July 2023, more than 22,000 individual participants involved in T Level delivery engaged in 43,723 activities as part of the programme.
The success of the TLPD programme has been underpinned by continued engagement with, and active listening to, the sector to ensure the offer continues to meet providers’ needs. In response to sector feedback, further support for embedding English, maths and digital skills into the delivery of T Levels was introduced in 2022 and the Assessment in T Levels course was added in 2023. Support targeted at schools is also available as more schools begin to offer T Level courses.
The contract extension period will refocus the support offered to further ensure it delivers sector needs, especially for smaller providers who are preparing to deliver T Levels for the first time.
