A review by exams regulator Ofqual has found that nearly 21,000 students were affected by BTEC and CTEC results delays last summer, more than 55 per cent more than was previously thought.
Regulators have today published an action plan for 2023 vocational and technical qualification results, which they hope will prevent a repeat of this year’s blunder, but more time is needed to determine the cause of the delays and the appropriate sanctions on awarding bodies.
Ofqual will introduce a “hard deadline” for vocational qualification results next summer and form a taskforce with sector chiefs to prevent results delays seen this year with BTEC and Cambridge Technicals from happening again.
It comes as new data reveals that more students were affected by the summer problems than first thought.
The exams watchdog today announced a five-point plan to ensure problems arising in this summer’s exams, which left thousands of students on Pearson BTEC and OCR CTEC courses waiting for results way beyond level 3 results day in August.
