Digital qualifications: evaluation progress
Progress of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications and Digital Functional Skills Qualifications through Ofqual's technical evaluation process.
Applies to England
Documents
Update history
2024-03-25 15:42
Highfield has completed the Ofqual process of technical evaluation.
2024-02-09 10:55
BCS – Qualification requires resubmission.
2024-01-18 13:27
Changes made since 19 October 2023• Pearson – DFSQs may be made available – all requirements met.• BCS – Qualification resubmitted for technical evaluation.
2024-01-18 09:30
Updated the Essential Digital Skills qualifications: progress so far – HTML attachment for January 2024.
2023-10-20 09:55
TLM – DFSQs may be made available – all requirements met.
2023-10-19 17:05
Pearson – technical evaluation complete and DFSQs may be made available (with requirements).
2023-10-11 11:59
Pearson – Qualification resubmitted for technical evaluation.OCNLR – technical evaluation complete and DFSQs may be made available – requirements are now satisfied.
2023-09-11 10:54
NOCN, NCFE and City & Guilds have satisfied the requirements following technical evaluation and DFSQs may be made available. TLM and OCNLR have completed technical evaluation and DFSQs may be made available (with requirements).
2023-09-08 14:11
Essential Digital Skills qualifications: progress so far page has been updated to reflect changes as of 8 September 2023.
2023-08-31 09:24
NOCN Level 1 Technical evaluation complete and qualification may be made available (with requirements).
2023-08-17 13:29
BCS and Pearson qualifications require resubmission.
2023-07-31 11:11
City and Guilds have completed technical evaluation and qualifications may be made available (with requirements).OCNLR, TLM and Pearson have resubmitted qualifications for technical evaluation.
2023-07-13 15:44
• Updated the stages of the technical evaluation process. • NCFE have completed technical evaluation and qualification may be made available with requirements.• NOCN Entry level 3 qualification has completed technical evaluation and may be made available with requirements.• TLM qualifications requires resubmission.
2023-07-06 14:35
Changes made since 8 June 2023: BCS qualifications resubmitted for technical evaluation, NCFE have completed technical evaluation, NOCN Entry level 3 qualification has completed technical evaluation, NOCN Level 1 qualification requires resubmission and OCNLR qualifications requires resubmission.
2023-06-09 11:07
Changes to the evaluation progress table within Digital Functional Skills progress, since the last update on 6 June, include BCS re-submission required for technical evaluation and NCFE have completed technical evaluation.
2023-06-06 09:30
Changes made to the Digital Functional Skills qualifications: progress so far evaluation progress table. NOCN, OCNLR and TLM have resubmitted qualifications for technical evaluation.
2023-06-01 15:42
Updated Open Awards and Highfield’s progress within Essential Digital Skills qualifications: progress so far.
2023-05-23 10:36
Changes made since 18 May 2023: following the completion of technical evaluation Pearson’s qualifications require resubmission.
2023-05-19 10:05
The evaluation progress table within ‘Digital Functional Skills: progress so far’ has been redrafted and the numerical key to the stages has been replaced for additional clarity. Additionally, BCS have resubmitted their digital functional skills qualifications for technical evaluation.
2023-05-15 13:55
TQUK have asked to be removed from the list of awarding organisations who are undergoing the technical evaluation process for digital functional skills qualifications at this time.
2023-05-10 15:29
Evaluation progress table has been updated within Digital Functional Skills qualifications: progress so far
2023-04-26 12:30
Evaluation progress table has been updated within Digital Functional Skills qualifications: progress so far.
2023-04-03 15:14
Evaluation progress for Digital Functional Skills qualifications has been amended to reflect each awarding organisation’s status as at 3 April 2023.
2023-03-24 11:57
Digital qualifications: table showing of the qualifications awarding organisations have notified Ofqual they are developing was updated.
2022-12-22 10:30
Evaluation progress has been updated for a number of the listed awarding organisations.
2022-12-08 09:30
‘Digital Functional Skills Qualifications: progress so far’ has been updated to include the evaluation progress of each of the qualifications that awarding organisations have notified Ofqual they are developing.
2022-10-11 15:48
Highfield Entry Level and Level 1 details have been changed from 4 to 3.
2022-08-24 13:32
The evaluation progress table in ‘Essential Digital Skills qualifications: progress so far’ has been amended to include information on Open Awards.
2022-04-27 12:00
Document “Digital Functional Skills qualifications: progress so far” has been updated to reflect the the final version of the regulatory framework, published on 31 March 2022. Also reflects the opening of the window for awarding organisations to expand their scope of recognition, on 14 April 2022.
2022-04-13 16:59
Evaluation progress table updated: both entry level and level 1 for City and Guilds are now at 3.