Understand our rules

Added section on advice notes and removed section referring to videos that are no longer in use.

Removed links to special rules for general qualifications during 2002, which were only valid for that year.

Updated to include newly-published Qualification Level Conditions for Progression Qualifications.

Added link to Conditions and requirements - Level 2 Technical Occupation Qualifications Qualification Level Conditions

Removed links to some of the special rules for general qualifications during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as rules for legacy GCSEs, AS and A levels, as they are no longer in force.

Added link to confirmed Alternative Academic and Alternative Technical Qualifications Qualification Level Conditions, Requirements and Guidance, following consultation.

Added links to the GCE and GCSE subject-level conditions and guidance documents for qualifications awarded in 2022.

Added links to the General Qualifications Alternative Awarding Framework and VTQ Contingency Regulatory Framework.

Added links to the 2021 GCSE, AS and A level subject-level conditions that will apply to qualifications awarded in 2021.

Added a link, under 'general rules and guidance', to a document that briefly details the regulatory differences between England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Added extraordinary conditions relating to awarding general qualifications in summer 2020.

Added a link to the Extraordinary regulatory framework: VTQ Covid-19 Conditions and Requirements.

Added new rules for certain qualifications included in school performance tables

Added new link to online 'handbook' for Essential Digital Skills qualifications

Updated to include Essential Digital Skills Conditions and Requirements

Published new rules and guidance for Technical Qualifications

Added information about our new video series, Ofqual Explains

Updated to reflect release of Ofqual Handbook

We have added more information about the upcoming launch of a new, online format for our rules and guidance.

Added new rules for Ofqual-regulated apprenticeship end-point assessments

Updated following launch of beta version of Ofqual handbook.

Updated following withdrawal of rules for key skills qualifications, and changes to qualifications covered by our specifications under section 96 of the Equality Act 2010

Updated following withdrawal of our rules for adult literacy and numeracy qualifications

Added a link to National Assessment framework.

Updated to reflect withdrawal of requirements for the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)

Updated to include documents published to support our new Regulated Qualifications Framework, and our criteria for determining whether a qualification is 'relevant' for the purposes of the Education and Skills Act 2008

Added a link to the 'Regulatory Documents List'.

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