{"id":865019,"date":"2025-08-14T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/rise-in-numbers-passing-construction-t-levels\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:48","slug":"rise-in-numbers-passing-construction-t-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/rise-in-numbers-passing-construction-t-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in numbers passing construction T levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/training_skills_shutterstock.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  alt=\"training_skills_shutterstock.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The proportion of students passing construction-related T levels has risen, data released today (14 August) shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A total of 107 students qualified with onsite construction T levels, out of 125 enrolled on courses across the country, according to provisional Department for Education (DfE) data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, 506 passed their building-services engineering course, out of 539 who attempted it. Only 317 students took the course in the previous academic year, while 138 took onsite construction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pass rate for onsite construction was 85.6 per cent, with building-services engineering seeing 93.9 per cent of participants qualify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both courses had a lower pass rate than the national average of 95 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last year\u2019s pass rate for onsite construction was 80.4 per cent, with building services seeing a 93.1 per cent level of success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This year, onsite construction had the second-highest rate of unclassified or failed grades, behind only design and development for engineering and manufacturing with 17.3 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/skills\/onsite-t-level-scrapped-due-to-low-demand-13-12-2024\/\"><span>In December 2024<\/span><\/a><span> it was announced that the onsite T level, introduced in 2021, would be scrapped in future academic years due to insufficient demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Onsite construction T levels include bricklaying, painting and decorating, plastering, and carpentry and joinery, while building-services T levels incorporate electrotechnical engineering, plumbing and heating engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The DfE said its data should be treated with caution because T Levels are still in their rollout phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/skills\/watchdog-tells-government-to-boost-t-level-numbers-28-03-2025\/\"><span>In March<\/span><\/a><span>, the National Audit Office said the government should boost the number of students taking T Levels and do a better job of raising awareness of the technical qualifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/skills\/rise-in-numbers-passing-construction-t-levels-14-08-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ian Weinfass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of students passing construction-related T levels has risen, data released today (14 August) shows. A total of 107 students qualified with onsite construction T levels, out of 125 enrolled on courses across the country, according to provisional Department for Education (DfE) data. Meanwhile, 506 passed their building-services engineering course, out of 539 who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,26383],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-865019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-numbers","8":"category-passing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}