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Hi Abigail
You would not add the placement hours as per the following guidance.
T Level planned hours must include:
- the technical qualification
- specialist content
- non-qualification activity (EEP)
T Level planned hours must not include:
- maths and English delivery (you do not need to record maths and English delivery hours for a T Level student)
- industry and work placements (record hours for industry placements in the work placement entity and not in the planned hours)
- other qualifications that are not part of the T Level
However, for Early Years Educator T Level only there is the following guidance.
For education and early years
On top of this, we expect that you should deliver 100 additional hours as part of the necessary observation on the industry placement as set out in the Education and Early Years Technical Qualification specification. These 100 hours, for this T Level only, should be counted and recorded as planned hours.
This means that the early years occupational specialism for the Education and Early Years T Level is funded at band 6.
The following occupational specialisms are also funded at band 6 but are below the minimum hours of 1180. Therefore, you will need to ensure you deliver the minimum hours by either adding additional qualification hours and/or EEP:
- assisting teaching and supporting
- mentoring students in education settings
These 100 hours still won't get you to 1180 but will help close the gap.
There has been the following ESFA Communities post in the past that I think will help.
https://esfahelp.education.gov.uk/hc/en-gb/community/posts/5296250427666-T-level-and-Placement-Hours
Kind regards, Anna
Abigail Slatter
T Level planned hours
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Good morning all,
We are trying to finalise our T Level learners planned hours. We work on Unit-E but I am hoping that others running T Levels may be able to help. We are new to running T Levels this year and are currently only running Education and Early Years. Our learners are on their work placement for 750 hours. Over the course of the 2 years, the students are in college learning and enrich for 905 hours.
On Unit-E we know this needs to go in the same box as the OTJ hours for our apprenticeships.
Currently we have just put this in as their GLH in college (905). Is this correct? Or should we add the 750 work placement hours to the 905 college hours?
We are conscious that if we only put the 905 hours in, we are under minimum planned hours and would therefore need to rework students timetables.