Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what changes have been made to the first year (a) Heath, (b) Healthcare science and (c) science T Level exam paper following the serious issues identified by Ofqual with last year's papers.

Ofqual has initiated an investigation into the Northern Council for Further Education’s (NCFE) production of assessment materials for the Health and Science T Level Technical Qualifications to identify how the issues with the Summer 2022 exams occurred.

Ofqual accepted an undertaking from NCFE, published on October 12 2022, as an interim measure, to minimise the risk of any issues in the upcoming core exam papers and to secure assurance that these issues will not be repeated in future assessment series for any of NCFE’s Technical Qualifications. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ncfe-undertaking-october-2022.

NCFE will review its Technical Qualification core exam papers and mark schemes before the autumn 2022 series to provide assurance to Ofqual that these assessments will be valid and of good quality.