# UK Ofqual Qualification Records — Levels 4-8 (`nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records`) Actor

Keyless, pay-per-record Ofqual Register data. One row per regulated qualification — number, title, level, type, awarding organisation, credits, TQT/GLH, dates. Levels 4-8 only (no K-12); OGL v3.0; no person data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGen Signal](https://apify.com/nexgensignal) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Jobs, Developer tools
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## Pricing

from $33.50 / 1,000 qualification records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## UK Ofqual Qualification Records — Levels 4-8

**Keyless. Pay per record. Every regulated higher-level qualification in England, as one clean table.**

This actor turns the **UK Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications** into clean, per-qualification records — the official list of regulated qualifications and the organisations that award them. Each run reads Ofqual's keyless register API and delivers one row per qualification: its number and title, its level and type, the awarding organisation, the credit and learning-hours values, the regulation and operational dates, and where it is offered. Qualification / awarding-organisation grain, structured for engineering use, under the Open Government Licence, with a **structural scope law: only higher-level qualifications (Levels 4-8) are emitted — school-level (Entry to Level 3, GCSE/GCE/A/AS) qualifications are excluded by design — and there is no personal data of any kind.**

### What this is, in one paragraph

Ofqual regulates qualifications in England and publishes the register of every regulated qualification. This actor reads that register and keeps **only the higher-level qualifications** — Levels 4 through 8, the post-secondary and professional band — flattening each into a single analysis-ready record: the Ofqual qualification number and title, the level and sub-level, the qualification type, the awarding organisation and its recognition number, the total credits, Total Qualification Time and Guided Learning Hours, the sector subject area, the regulation and operational and certification dates, and the England/Northern-Ireland/international offer flags. School-level qualifications are filtered out at ingest. Values are exactly as on the register. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

### Who buys this and for what job

- **Skills-intelligence, EdTech, and workforce-development products** that need the regulated higher-qualification catalogue as clean rows to map courses, credentials, and providers.
- **Apprenticeship, training-provider, and funding tools** aligning offerings to regulated qualifications and their awarding organisations.
- **Course-comparison and careers platforms** listing regulated Level 4-8 qualifications with credits, hours, and status.
- **Data engineers** who want the register filtered to the higher band without paging the API and stripping school-level rows by hand.

### Open Government Licence — free commercial reuse

One licence rider travels on every record. Ofqual Register data is published under the **Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0)** — free to copy, publish, distribute, and adapt, **including commercially**, with the required attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." One honest caveat rides every record too: this is the register as published, not a substitute for the live Ofqual Register when making a regulatory or funding decision.

### Structural scope — Levels 4-8 only, no school-level, no person data

Two properties define this actor. First, the **higher-level scope law**: only qualifications at **Level 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8** are ever emitted. Entry Level and Levels 1-3 — the school and foundation band, including GCSEs, GCEs, A and AS levels, and Key Stage qualifications — are excluded at ingest, before any record is built; the acceptance suite feeds GCSE, Entry Level, and Level 2/3 rows and asserts none can pass. Second, **no person data**: the register describes qualifications and the organisations that award them, never people; there are no natural-person fields, and a person-key guard runs on every record as a pure backstop. The awarding organisation (an entity, with its recognition number) is retained as organisation data.

### Sample output

![Sample output — UK Ofqual Qualification Records — Levels 4-8](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/IXCaMKjxSmUTLHhmq/records/uk-ofqual-qualification-records.png)

*Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).*

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

```json
{
  "record_id": "100/0244/3",
  "qualification_number": "100/0244/3",
  "title": "VTCT Level 4 Key Skills in Application of Number",
  "status": "No longer awarded",
  "type": "Key Skills",
  "level": "Level 4",
  "sub_level": "None",
  "eqf_level": "Level 5",
  "ssa": "Foundations for learning and life",
  "organisation_name": "VTCT Skills",
  "organisation_acronym": "VTCT Skills",
  "organisation_recognition_number": "RN5198",
  "grading_type": null,
  "total_credits": 0,
  "tqt": null,
  "glh": null,
  "regulation_start_date": "2000-09-01T00:00:00Z",
  "operational_start_date": "2000-09-01T00:00:00Z",
  "operational_end_date": "2012-09-30T00:00:00Z",
  "certification_end_date": "2013-09-30T00:00:00Z",
  "offered_in_england": true,
  "offered_in_northern_ireland": false,
  "offered_internationally": null,
  "apprenticeship_standard_title": null,
  "link_to_specification": null,
  "last_updated_date": "2024-12-17T21:19:51.463Z",
  "source": "UK Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications",
  "source_url": "https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/",
  "licence": "UK Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications data, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0) — free to copy, publish, distribute and adapt, including commercially, with the required attribution.",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications (register.ofqual.gov.uk).",
  "disclaimer": "Regulated post-secondary qualification records (Levels 4-8 only) from the Ofqual Register. Qualification + awarding-organisation grain — no natural-person data; GCSE/GCE/A/AS and other Entry-to-Level-3 (school / K-12) qualifications are structurally excluded. Status and dates are as on the register; not a substitute for the live Ofqual Register for a regulatory decision.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:26:37Z"
}
```

### Pricing

| Event | Free plan | Bronze | Silver | Gold / Platinum / Diamond |
|-------|-----------|--------|--------|---------------------------|
| `qualification_record` | $0.05 | $0.045 | $0.04 | $0.0335 |

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `level` | string | — | Optional. Narrow to a single higher level: 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. School-level qualifications are never available. |
| `organisationContains` | string | — | Optional. Keep only qualifications whose awarding-organisation name contains this text. |
| `typeContains` | string | — | Optional. Keep only qualifications whose type contains this text (e.g. NVQ, Diploma, Certificate). |
| `maxRecords` | integer | 500 | Ceiling on records delivered and billed. |

### Output

One JSON object per qualification. Real example (values as on the register):

```json
{
  "record_id": "603/1234/5",
  "qualification_number": "603/1234/5",
  "title": "Level 4 Diploma in Management",
  "status": "Available",
  "type": "NVQ",
  "level": "Level 4",
  "eqf_level": "Level 5",
  "ssa": "15.3 Business Management",
  "organisation_name": "Pearson Education Ltd",
  "organisation_acronym": "Pearson",
  "organisation_recognition_number": "RN5133",
  "total_credits": 60,
  "tqt": 600,
  "glh": 360,
  "operational_start_date": "2015-01-01",
  "offered_in_england": true,
  "source": "UK Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications",
  "licence": "UK Ofqual Register ... Open Government Licence v3.0 ...",
  "disclaimer": "Regulated post-secondary qualification records (Levels 4-8 only) ... school ... structurally excluded ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}
```

An unbilled `RUN_RECEIPT` records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and matched and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered — plus a notice that only Levels 4-8 are emitted.

### Field reference

Each record is one qualification. Identity: `record_id` / `qualification_number`, `title`, and `status`. Classification: `type`, `level`, `sub_level`, `eqf_level`, and `ssa`. Awarding organisation: `organisation_name`, `organisation_acronym`, and `organisation_recognition_number`. Size: `total_credits`, `tqt` (Total Qualification Time), and `glh` (Guided Learning Hours). Grading: `grading_type`. Dates: `regulation_start_date`, `operational_start_date`, `operational_end_date`, `certification_end_date`, and `last_updated_date`. Availability: `offered_in_england`, `offered_in_northern_ireland`, `offered_internationally`, and `apprenticeship_standard_title`. Reference: `link_to_specification`. Provenance: `source`, `source_url`, `licence`, `attribution`, `disclaimer`, and `observed_at`.

### How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the Ofqual register API — and stops at the door if a Disallow ever covers it. It then pages the register API, and for each qualification applies the **Level 4-8 gate first** — school-level rows never proceed — then your optional `level`, `organisationContains`, and `typeContains` filters, before flattening the match to one record. Records are delivered **before** they are charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your `maxRecords` ceiling and records `charge_equals_delivered` in the receipt.

### Coverage and scope

The register holds on the order of **50,000+ regulated qualifications** across every level; the higher band this actor emits — Levels 4-8 — is several thousand qualifications across professional, technical, and degree-equivalent credentials. Because each record carries the `organisation_recognition_number` and `ssa`, qualifications join cleanly to provider and sector datasets, and the `level` and `type` fields segment the catalogue precisely. Pull one level or one awarding organisation, or the whole higher band to seed a credential catalogue.

### Cost guidance

One `qualification_record` per delivered qualification: cost = qualifications delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with `level`, `organisationContains`, or `typeContains` to keep runs bounded — one level or one organisation is typically a few hundred to a couple of thousand. 1,000 qualifications is **$50** (Free) / **$33.50** (Gold).

### Honest limitations

- **Levels 4-8 only, by design.** School-level (Entry to Level 3) qualifications are structurally excluded; this is the higher / post-secondary catalogue.
- **As on the register.** Titles, levels, dates, and status are exactly as Ofqual publishes them; this actor reformats, it does not interpret or accredit.
- **Not the live register.** For a regulatory, funding, or enrolment decision, consult the live Ofqual Register.
- **No person data** of any kind.

### Differentiation

This is a **net-new** category for the NexGenData fleet — no existing fleet actor covers UK regulated qualifications. It is distinct from any school-register cell (e.g. Ofsted school registers cover K-12 institutions, not post-secondary credentials) and from the fleet's US higher-education directory cell (US IPEDS institutions ≠ UK Ofqual qualifications). Its specific job is the **Ofqual Level 4-8 qualification register** — the regulated higher-credential catalogue with awarding organisations, credits, and dates.

### The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

- [O\*NET Skill & Software Records — Occupation Associations](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/onet-skill-software-records)
- [Higher-Ed Institution Records — US IPEDS](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/higher-education-institution-records)
- [UK Company Status Records — Companies House](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/uk-company-status-records)
- [UK Tariff Commodity Records — HS Codes & Taxonomy](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/uk-tariff-commodity-records)
- [Grant Opportunity Records — US Grants.gov](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/grant-opportunity-records)

*Source: UK Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications (register.ofqual.gov.uk). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution. Levels 4-8 only; school-level (Entry to Level 3, GCSE/GCE/A/AS) qualifications are structurally excluded. Qualification / awarding-organisation grain; no person data of any kind. Register snapshot, not the live Ofqual Register.*

# Actor input Schema

## `level` (type: `string`):

Optional. Narrow to a single higher level: 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. K-12 / Entry-to-Level-3 qualifications are never available.

## `organisationContains` (type: `string`):

Optional. Keep only qualifications whose awarding-organisation name contains this text.

## `typeContains` (type: `string`):

Optional. Keep only qualifications whose type contains this text (e.g. NVQ, Diploma, Certificate).

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Maximum records delivered and billed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxRecords": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Delivered records.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxRecords": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxRecords": 500 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxRecords": 500
}' |
apify call nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nexgensignal/uk-ofqual-qualification-records"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CBaDuQHBHU4kAbdoh/builds/KRdkoIc5qTzcaSgpK/openapi.json