The colleges to take part in the first round of the phased implementation of the T-levels “transitional” course have been named. The programme, recommended by Lord Sainsbury in his technical education report in July 2016, will be for 16-year-olds to take if they are not ready to start a T-level at level three, but can “realistically achieve it” by age 19. It is being developed by the Association of Colleges, following a secretive tender earlier this year. Thirty seven providers will pilot the course next year. Timescales for developing and testing it will be tight, as there is just over a year to go until the first three T-levels, in digital, education and construction, are delivered. The 37 colleges to pilot the T-levels transition course: Access Creative College (Access to Music Ltd.) Barnsley College Bishop Burton College Blackpool and The Fylde College Bridgwater & Taunton College Cardinal Newman College Chichester College Group Cirencester College City of Stoke-on-Trent sixth Form College Cranford Community College Derby College Dudley College of Technology East Sussex College Group Exeter College Fareham College Farnborough College of Technology Gateshead College Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education Havant and South Downs College HCUC (Harrow College and Uxbridge College) La Retraite RC Girls School Lordswood Girls’ School & Sixth Form Centre Nelson and Colne College New College Durham Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education Oldham Sixth Form College Peter Symonds Priestley College Runshaw College Scarborough Sixth Form College Shipley College of Further Education Strode College Suffolk New College The College of Richard Collyer Truro and Penwith College Ursuline High School Weston College