Qualifications

Guidance and services

• Vocational qualifications: summer 2021
  Information about vocational qualifications for summer 2021.
• Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW): employer guide
  Understanding the framework and how it can help businesses.
• Pre-notification of appeal process: letter
  Letter to Qualifications Wales about the proposed decision on the appeals process for the calculation of grades.
• Private candidates: list of centres
  A list of the centres in Wales that have been identified to host private candidates.
• Design and Delivery Advisory Group: letter to the minister
  Letter from the Chair of the Design and Delivery Advisory Group to Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education.
• Welsh Baccalaureate
  Explains the structure and benefits of the award.
• Design and Delivery Advisory Group: consensus document
  Consensus document from the Design and Delivery Advisory Group.
• Examination and assessment guidance: 2020 to 2021
  Information on examinations and assessments, including A levels, during the coronavirus pandemic.
• GCSE, AS and A-level cancellations: letter
  Letter to Qualifications Wales about the policy on the cancellation of exams and how to determine grades.
• Awarding of vocational qualifications: letter
  Letter to Qualifications Wales about the policy on the cancellation of exams and how to determine grades.
• Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW): level descriptors
  Descriptions of each level in the CQFW.
• Qualifications Wales: grant allocation letter (2020 to 2021)
  Confirms the grant allocated to Qualifications Wales for 2020 to 2021.
• Regulated Professions Proportionality Assessment
  Guidance and template for reporting for regulators of teachers (including further education teachers) and certain social care professions in Wales on the European Union (Regulated Professions Proportionality Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2020.
• Qualifications Wales: grant allocation letter (2021 to 2022)
  Confirms the grant allocated to Qualifications Wales for 2021 to 2022.
• Determination of grades: letter
  Letter to Qualifications Wales about amending the policy on how to determine grades.
• Assessment arrangements: summer term 2021
  Guidance for schools and settings on learner assessment for the summer term 2021 including key considerations to support learner progression and supporting case studies. This relates to normal assessment practice not the arrangements being made for general qualifications this year.
• Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW): learner guide
  Explains how the framework will help you understand and compare qualifications and plan your progress.
• Centre assessment grades: letter
  Letter to Qualifications Wales about awarding centre assessment grades to students.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Qualifications Wales: grant allocation letter (2019 to 2020)
  Policy and strategy
  Qualifications Wales
  Confirms the grant allocated to Qualifications Wales for 2019 to 2020.
• Independent review of the summer 2020 arrangements to award grades, and considerations for summer 2021
  Policy and strategy
  Terms of reference for the independent review of the summer 2020 arrangements to award grades, and considerations for summer 2021.
• Criteria for Initial School Teacher Training Accreditation by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales 2014 (2014 No.1)
  Legislation
  This legislation is made under Regulations 7(2) and (3) of the School Teachers' Qualifications (Wales) Regulations 2012.
• Qualifications Wales: grant allocation letter (2018 to 2019)
  Policy and strategy
  Qualifications Wales
  Confirms the grant allocated to Qualifications Wales for 2018 to 2019.
• Design and Delivery Advisory Group: letter to the minister January 2021
  Public response
  Design and Delivery Advisory Group
  Letter from the Chair of the Design and Delivery Advisory Group to Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education.
• Qualifications Wales: framework
  Policy and strategy
  Qualifications Wales
  Detailed information on its aims, how it operates and who it is accountable to.
• Independent review of the summer 2020 arrangements to award grades, and considerations for summer 2021: final report December 2020
  Report
  Final report from the independent review of qualifications in Wales in summer 2020.
• Review of qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds: final report and recommendations
  Report
  A review of our qualifications systems and recommendations on how to improve it.
• Design and Delivery Advisory Group: letter to the minister March 2021
  Public response
  Design and Delivery Advisory Group
  Letter from the Chair of the Design and Delivery Advisory Group to Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education.
• Letter from Kirsty Williams, MS, Minister for Education to the Chair of the Design and Delivery Advisory Group
  Public response
  Design and Delivery Advisory Group
  Letter from Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education.
• Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW): overview
  Policy and strategy
  Describes the framework, its background and its principles.
• Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW)
  Collection
  Background and explanation of the Credit and Qualifications Framework.