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Chris Roberts

Certificate Step Up to English E3 - 16-19

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Can anyone advise if this qualification that has now appeared on a learners PLR would cause an audit issue if we delivered English E1 and E2?

I have never heard of it before but it looks like the local schools have started delivering Certificate Step Up to English E3 for learners that may not be capable of getting an English GCSE.. It not a full functional skills and the learners IA/diags are suggesting E1/E2 as a starting point for their English levels with us. 

Certificate Step Up to English

Reference60159789LevelEntry Level
Awarding bodyAQAGuided learning hours120

Available funding streams for academic year 2024 to 2025:

14-16 EFA16-19 EFAOther
Last date for new startVaries - see listing for dates

Certificate Step Up to English (submit-learner-data.service.gov.uk)

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Steve Hewitt

Think I'd be going full Good Educational Reasons on this and delivering what the IA/diags say... Can always move them up later...

Chris Roberts

Yeah we would always try and justify it that way with an auditor. However we cant build a full plan to protect us at audit if they removed the FS hours so we are a bit hesitant to start the learners before getting an answer from the ESFA. 

Steve Hewitt

All I'll say is I've never known a (good) auditor to question a pedagogical decision. Presume we're only talking a handful of learners on full-time/Band 5, full-year programmes? Also, I'd argue it's about progression on the whole programme, not individual aims within it:

87: Institutions must be able to demonstrate educational progression for students recruited onto programmes funded by ESFA and be able to record evidence of good educational reasons for individual students recruited to programmes which do not provide progression. All such students should only make up a small percentage of the total student cohort.

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