Academic year 2023/24

Provisional T Level results

Data guidance

Published 27 March 2025

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘Provisional T Level results: 2023/24’ official statistics in development release underlying data files.  This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab).

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

Providers delivering T Levels in England

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had rounding applied. 

Suppression is applied to protect the disclosure of personal information or characteristics.

Conventions 

The following conventions are used throughout the underlying data. 

Symbol	Useage	Example
z	When an observation is not applicable	No data for males at an all female school
x	When data is unavailable for other reasons	Data for an indicator is not collected in a certain region
c	Confidential data	Data has been suppressed

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Overall T Level results

• Filename: tlevel_results_overall.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  Overall T Level results, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), students who started study in 2021 (Revised results), and students who started study in 2022 (Provisional results). Results are broken down by T level pathway and by sex

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
percent	Percent
sex	Sex
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
3. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.
4. Partial achievement covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism but achieved only one, and students who achieved neither but completed the industry placement.
5. An Unclassified overall result indicates a learner has attempted but not achieved both the core component and occupational specialism, and has not completed the industry placement

Overall T Level results by student characteristics

• Filename: november_characteristics.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2023/24
• Content:
  Overall T Levels results additionally broken down by disadvantage, FSM, SEN, ethnicity, first language, and prior attainment.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic_value	Characteristic
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
percent	Percent
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
2. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.
3. Partial achievement covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism but achieved only one, and students who achieved neither but completed the industry placement.
4. An Unclassified overall result indicates a learner has attempted but not achieved both the core component and occupational specialism, and has not completed the industry placement

Number of T Level results by region of England

• Filename: tlevel_results_overall_region.csv
• Geographic levels: Regional
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  T Level student numbers by region, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), students who started study in 2021 (Revised results), and students who started study in 2022 (Provisional results). Results are broken down by T level pathway.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
number_of_students	Number of students
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.

Core component results

• Filename: tlevel_results_core.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  Results of the core component, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), students who started in 2021 (Revised results), and students who started in 2022 (Provisional results). Results are broken down by core component and by sex.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
core_component	Core component
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
percent	Percent
sex	Sex

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
3. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.

Occupational specialism results

• Filename: tlevel_results_os.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  Results of the occupational specialism, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), students who started in 2021 (Revised results), and students who started in 2022 (Provisional results). Results broken down by T level pathway and by sex.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
percent	Percent
sex	Sex
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
3. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.

Occupational specialism disaggregated results

• Filename: tlevel_results_os_disaggregated_by_specialism.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  Results of the occupational specialism, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), who started in 2021 (Revised results), who started in 2022 (Provisional results). Results broken down by T level pathway, occupational specialism, and sex

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
occupational_specialism	Occupational specialism
percent	Percent
sex	Sex

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
3. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.

Industry placement completion

• Filename: tlevel_results_industry_placement.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24
• Content:
  Results of the industry placement, for students who started study in 2020 (Final results), students who started in 2021 (Revised results), and students who started in 2022 (Provisional results). Results are broken down by T level pathway and by sex.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
percent	Percent
sex	Sex
status	Status
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Figures for  2021/22 are Final, figures for 2022/23 are Revised, figures for 2023/24 are Provisional November.
2. Figures for the total number of students may not match the sum of females and males, as not all institutions recorded the sex for every student
3. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.

Overall T Level results by provider

• Filename: tlevel_results_overall_ukprn.csv
• Geographic levels: Provider
• Time period: 2023/24
• Content:
  T Level results for individual providers. Data for T Levels overall and by pathway

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count	Count
cumulative_count	Cumulative count
cumulative_percent	Cumulative percent
grade	Grade
percent	Percent
tlevel_pathway	T Level pathway

Footnotes

1. Covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism, not including pending results.
2. Partial achievement covers students who attempted both the core component and occupational specialism but achieved only one, and students who achieved neither but completed the industry placement.
3. An Unclassified overall result indicates a learner has attempted but not achieved both the core component and occupational specialism, and has not completed the industry placement
4. Figures for the total number of students in provider data may not match the totals from all England figures, as providers could delay the reporting of students in their data where the student was resitting the core or occupational specialism in their third year