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The handbook includes the following rules and guidance, which apply to all awarding organisations and all qualifications we regulate:

• our General Conditions of Recognition, which we set and publish using our powers under
• our guidance to the General Conditions of Recognition, which is designed to help awarding organisations understand how to comply with our rules. Awarding organisations must have regard to this guidance under
• all our other general rules and guidance for regulated qualifications, which were previously published in the following separate documents:
  • 鈥楢dditional Certificate Requirements鈥�
  • 鈥楲ogo Requirements鈥�
  • 鈥楺ualification and Component Levels鈥�
  • 鈥楾otal Qualification Time Criteria鈥�
  • 鈥楥riteria for determining whether a qualification is relevant for the purposes of the Education and Skills Act 2008鈥�

Which qualifications do we regulate?

The qualifications Ofqual regulates are set out in the .

The way the law works means that, even when we regulate an organisation, we do not necessarily regulate all the qualifications it offers. Awarding organisations can choose to ask us to regulate only some of their qualifications. They might, for example, only ask us to regulate qualifications of a particular level or type, or in a particular subject area. We use the term 鈥榮cope of recognition鈥� to describe all the qualifications an organisation has asked us to regulate.

We regulate qualifications which:

1. are within an awarding organisation鈥檚 scope of recognition, and
2. have, or may be reasonably expected to have, persons seeking to obtain the qualification who are, or may reasonably be expected to be, assessed wholly or mainly in England.

Examples of qualifications we do not regulate include qualifications which are:

• outside an awarding organisation鈥檚 scope of recognition (for example, because they are a different level or type, or in a different subject area)
• taken only by students outside England

The handbook is divided into sections, which correspond to the different sections of our General Conditions of Recognition. Within each section, you will find the relevant General Conditions, as well as:

• any associated supporting requirements, and
• any guidance we have published to help awarding organisations comply with those rules.

Searching within the handbook

The search box at the top of each page allows you to search within the whole handbook. results here will show you which sections of the handbook a search term appears in. You can also extend search results to the whole of GOV.uk.

To search within a handbook section, first click 鈥極pen all鈥� to expand all subsections:

Then, use the search function built into your browser.

Navigation

The navigation menu below the search box allows you to return to the front page of the handbook.

You can also use normal navigation controls within your browser

Defined terms

Throughout the handbook, we use capital letters to identify defined terms, which have the meaning given in General Condition J1. If you hover over a defined term, the definition will appear in a tooltip.

You can print and save offline copies of individual handbook sections. It is not currently possible to print or save the entire handbook - this is a limitation of the GOV.uk platform.

To print a handbook section, navigate to it, and print it directly from your web browser. This will print the entire section. You don鈥檛 need to expand subsections first; this is done automatically when you print a section.

You can also use the 鈥楶rint to PDF鈥� function built into most operating systems to save local copies of individual handbook sections as PDF files.