(Teachers) What are the arrangements for Vocational Qualifications (VTQs) this summer?

During this challenging period, awarding organisations are following exceptional requirements set out by the regulators, Ofqual, CCEA and Qualifications Wales. This guidance allows awarding bodies to issue results as follows.

• It allows awarding organisations to issue calculated results for qualifications which have a primary purpose of progression on to further or higher education.
• For qualifications with a primary purpose of progression into or through employment, calculated results are not appropriate. There may be some changes made to assessments to enable remote delivery/assessment and this is referred to as an adapted assessment.
• For some qualifications, the only option is to delay the assessment, as there is no way of validly calculating a result or adapting the assessment in a way that does not undermine confidence in the qualifications. Students taking these qualifications will have to wait to sit assessments at the next available opportunity.

The aim is to enable as many students as possible to receive a result for OCR assessments they planned to take in spring/summer 2020. After discussions with the regulator, Ofqual, and other awarding organisations, we are putting the following arrangements in place for each OCR qualification: 

Calculated result

For all those students who were expecting to complete assessments between 20 March and 31 July 2020, we will work with you to provide a calculated result and ask you to submit a centre assessment grade:

• Centre assessment grades for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals are submitted through our Grade Submission System
• Centre assessment grades for Life and Living Skills are submitted though Interchange
• Centre assessment grades for Functional Skills and Using ICT (Entry 3) are submitted though a centre assessment grade submission form

Please see the links above for more details on the process for each qualification.

Adapt

There may be some changes made to assessments to enable remote delivery/assessment and this is referred to as an adapted assessment. Links to the guidance on permitted adaptations for each qualification will be added here as they become available:

Delay

Students taking these qualifications will have to wait to sit assessments at the next available opportunity. We will add links here as more information becomes available: