2024-2025

Letter to centres - Designation of 14-16 qualifications - sent 16 May 2025

Letter to centres - Update on exams and assessments - sent 8 May 2025

Letter to centres - Update - sent 27 March 2025

Letter to Responsible Officers - Publication of our new Regulatory Framework - sent 25 March 2025

Letter to Responsible Officers - Wave 3 development updates - sent 10 March 2025

Letter to Responsible Officers - Wave 3 National Qualifications Guidance - sent 24 February 2025

Letter to centres -  Important update on the roll-out of the new GCSE History qualification - sent 6 February 2025

Letter to centres - Designation - sent 30 January 2025

Letter to Responsible Officers - 2025-2026 Welsh Language Support Grant - sent 13 January 2025 

Letter to Responsible Officers - National 14-16 Qualifications Recognition Criteria - sent 13 January 2025

Letter to centres - End of the autumn term - sent 16 December 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Final approval criteria published for VCSE, Foundation and Skills Suite qualifications - sent 10 November 2024 

Letter to centres - Decisions on our approach to designating qualifications - sent 10 November 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Awarding Body Forum and Consultation last call - sent November 2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications survey - insight into your initial thinking as centres 

Letter to centres - Reviewing AS and A levels in Cymraeg and Welsh Second Language 

Letter to centres - Exams and assessments 2024/25 - sent 22 October 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Consultation on criteria for recognition to award National 14-16 Qualifications - sent 14 October 2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications update - sent 2 October 2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications update - sent 5 September 2024

2023-2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications update - sent 16 July 2024

Letter to centres - Update following the end of the summer series - sent 26 June 2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications update: progression to AS/A level - sent 13 June 2024

Letter to centres - National Qualifications update: The Sciences - sent 6 June 2024

Letter to centres - exams and assessments 2024 - sent 3 May 2024

Letter to centres - March update - sent 13 March 2024

Letter to centres - February update - sent 22 February 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Consultation on proposed approach to designating 14-16 qualifications - sent 20 February 2024

Letter to centres -  UK Government announcement on Wave 4 defunding of Level 3 qualifications in England - sent 30 January 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Withdrawal of VCRF - sent 22 January 2024

Letter to centres - Winter update - sent 22 January 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Statement of Policy Intent - sent 22 January 2024

Letter to Responsible Officers - Changes to the Standard Conditions of Recognition - sent 13 December 2023

Letter to centres - Update on UK Government defunding of Level 3 qualifications in England - sent 1 December 2023

Letter to centres - Regarding 2024/25 application dates for Welsh 
Language Support Grant - sent 23 November 2023

Letter to centres - Regarding  maintaining accurate end date data on the QiW database - sent 17 November 2023

Letter to centres - Overseeing the November 2023 GCSE exam series - sent 25 October 2023

Letter to Higher Education Institutions - Approach to Grading Arrangements in Wales - sent 23 October 2023

Letter to centres - Arrangements for the 2023-2024 exam series - sent 21 September 2023 

2022-2023

Letter to Responsible Officers - Procurement Expression Of Interest - sent 21 July 2023 

Letter to centres - Summer 2023 - sent 4 July 2023 

Letter to centres - Update on summer 2023 exams - sent 4 May 2023  

Letter to centres - Reminders for the summer exam series and a Qualified for the Future consultation update - sent 29 March 2023 

Letter to Higher Education Institutions - Arrangements for the transition back to pre-pandemic grading in Wales - sent 7 February 2023 

Letter to centres - Updates on the exam series, Qualified for the Future consultation, annual report and strategic priorities plan - sent 17 January 2023  

Letter to Responsible Officers - QiW end dates - March 2022

Letter to Responsible Officers - Updated Event Management Policy - sent March 2022

Letter to Responsible Officers - Priority Qualifications List and Restricted Priority Qualifications Policy and associated Schemes - sent May 2022

Grades awarded using alternative assessment evidence: guide to the data submission process - sent July 2023

Letter to Responsible Officers - Procurement Expression Of Interest - sent July 2023

Letter to Responsible Officers - Update on our approach to designation of qualifications in construction and building services engineering - sent July 2022

Letter to Responsible Officers - Publication of our Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care Phase 2 Sector Review - sent July 2022

Letter to Responsible Officers - Securing The Offer - sent August 2023

Notice to awarding bodies requesting information on grades awarded using alternative assessment evidence for GCSEs, AS levels, A levels and Skills Challenge Certificates - sent August 2023

Letter to Responsible Officers -  Promoting availability of Welsh medium qualifications - sent August 2023

Letter to Responsible Officers - Changes to QiW - sent August 2022

Letter to Responsible Officers - Delivering the Active Offer (y ‘Cynnig Cymraeg’) - sent August 2022

Letter to centres - Arrangements for the 2022-2023 exam series - sent 29 September 2022 

Letter to Responsible Officers - Sector Qualification Groups - sent September 2022

Letter to Higher Education Institutions - Update on the grading arrangements for learners in Wales - sent 25 October 2022   

Letter to centres - Updates on the consultation on future Made-for-Wales GCSEs and reminders ahead of the November exam series - sent 27 October 2022 

Publication of the Conditions of Recognition for the new Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales (ASBW) (Level 3) qualification - sent October 2022

Letter to centres - Qualified for the Future consultation and an exam series update - sent 6 December 2022