Mike Daykin

2nd year returning T Level leaving programme in first 6 weeks

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Do we reduce the 2nd year hours - if so how and where, or does paragraph 130 preside?

130: When a student withdraws from all their learning aims, and therefore withdraws from their whole programme, they will not meet the criteria to count as a start and will not be counted for funding. In these cases, institutions do not have to change the planned hours.

 

 

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Steve Hewitt

Thing is, for any second year (not just T Levels) "42 days" is sort of 12 September, so given it's unlikely they were "properly" in learning during August, any second year withdrawing in the first six weeks of actual teaching needs their hours reduced to actual.

Q14 in Annex C just about answers this (but it's definitely what you need to do):

Q14 When a student continues a programme from the previous year and the first 
date of attendance is after 1 August (for example, due to summer holiday 
arrangements), what date is used for calculating the planned hours? 
A14 Institutions must use the student’s first date of attendance for learning activity to 
calculate the 6 week period for determining planned hours. The number of planned 
hours a student may study should not be greater than 40 hours per week (and for 
example, for those who cease studying after 5 weeks the maximum planned hours
will be 200).

Mike Daykin

Thanks Steve, thanks for confirming we reduce the hours for the 2nd year T Level - how do we do this as the hours are set over 2 years (for the T Level) so do we discount the hours to one full year plus this years reduced hours to comply for a T level?

Steve Hewitt

Oh heck, forgot about the two year hours thing...

In principle, "yes", but I'll have to defer to someone with more detailed T Level knowledge here, because I think FIS throws a fit if you have a T Level learner with hours under a certain value...