The number of students successfully completing construction-related T levels has rocketed, national results day data shows.
A total of 111 students qualified with T levels in onsite construction today (15 August), while a further 296 students have been awarded a building services engineering T level.
The figures are up from 59 and 60 respectively since last August. Last year’s results were for the first-ever cohort of the T levels in building services and onsite construction.
The two subject areas each include two separate courses: onsite construction T levels are bricklaying, and carpentry and joinery. The building services T levels are electrotechnical engineering, and plumbing and heating engineering.
T levels are a technical qualification aimed at 16-to-18-year-olds. Students work with an employer as well as receiving teaching at an educational provider.
This year 21 students failed to gain their building services T level, meaning the pass rate for the course was 93.1 per cent – almost identical to the 93 per cent pass rate across all 16 subject areas.
However, 27 students failed to pass their onsite construction course, meaning the subject only had an 80.4 per cent pass rate – the worst of any subject except design and development for engineering and manufacturing (72.3 per cent).
The data published by the Department for Education does not include statistics for students who left their T-level placements – with education regulator Ofsted warning last year that drop-out numbers had been high amid “a range of shortcomings” at some providers.
The number of female students passing an onsite construction T level increased from one to five this year, with a similar jump from two to eight for the building services qualification. However, the proportion of female students qualifying in the courses remained low, at 3 per cent.
