Ofqual to fine exam board £300,000 over T-level failings

The exams watchdog says it will fine an exam board £300,000 over “major failings” with the papers sat by health and science T-level students in 2022.

Ofqual said it had had to take “unprecedented” action against the exam board, NCFE, to get 1,200 students’ results recalculated.

More than 700 of those students had had their grades amended as a result.

NCFE chief executive David Gallagher said the board had apologised to students, providers and parents and taken steps to avoid it happening again.

T-levels were introduced in 2020, as a vocational option for students to take after their GCSEs.

Each course lasts two years and is roughly equivalent to three A-levels.

Ofqual said NCFE had failed to develop “valid question papers” for its T-level qualifications in healthcare,…