Clare Hancock

Transferred - T Level to Study Programme

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Hi.  Hoping someone can help?  We have a 16 year old learner who started on a T Level and then Transferred to a Study Programme.  I am not sure how to record the hours.  They are currently showing in the ILR as a total of 1928hrs.  Which comprises of 1332hrs for the T Level (learner was on course for 43 days)  and then 596hrs for the Study Programme.  As the T Level went past the 42 day census date, I haven't reduced the hours.  The learner is now coming up on the PDSAT report - 25Y-203 Learners with high planned hours in-year.  I have checked the guidance and I cant see an example of T Level to Study Programme, just one showing Study Prg to T Level. 

Any help would be great, thanks. 

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Chris Roberts

Are you allowed to do that from T-level to SP?

Students who do multiple programmes including a T Level

52. As with study programmes, we do not encourage providers to plan a T Level programme plus other programmes for an individual student in a year. T Levels are full-time programmes and we do not fund students for more than the annual amount for their T Level. Therefore, students who do a T Level and another programme (either a T Level foundation year or another study programme) will only be funded for one programme, whichever is the latest programme recorded. However, students who do an AS or A level alongside their T Level are eligible for the large programme uplift, as long as they achieve their qualifications at the required level.

Clare Hancock

Hi Chris.  Thanks for the reply.  The learner was only on the T Level for September and October before Transferring to a Study Programme.  

I have just checked our Funding Summary report from the ILR and the learner is showing as "1180 hours (T level Band 6)", so the ILR must only be looking at the T Level aims and hours of 1332 for funding payment  .... even though the PDSAT is showing the Study Programme hours and T Level hours added together.  

 
 

Chris Roberts

Yes they can.....

Record your T Level data correctly in academic year 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK

Students transferring between T Levels and study programmes

The same considerations apply whether a student moves from a T Level to a study programme or the other way around.

You do not need to change the study programme or T Level planned hours. The funding calculation will use the planned hours recorded for the most recent programme and will disregard planned hours recorded for programmes that a student has transferred off or withdrawn from.

The hours recorded for a study programme must reflect the hours planned for the remainder of the year.

The hours recorded for a T Level must reflect the hours planned for the remainder of the year plus the hours for subsequent years of study.

You must make sure that you record the core aim flag against a learning aim as appropriate.

 

Ruth Canham-James

Clare Hancock The 1928hrs you've mentioned aren't all in one field are they? T level Hours should be in PHours, Student Programme Hours should be in PlanLearnHours and PlanEEPHours. The logic for that PDSAT is:

Identify all learners with FundModel = 25, ProgType <> 31 AND (PlanEEPHours + PlanLearnHours) ≥ 660.  Then return all learning aims for learners identified.

So that shouldn't include your T level Hours.

Clare Hancock

Ruth Canham-James .. I have the 1332hrs in the T level field and then the Study Prog hours in the PlanLearnHours and EEP fields. 

Clare Hancock

Ruth Canham-James .. I have the 1332hrs in the T level field and then the Study Prog hours in the PlanLearnHours and EEP fields. 

Ruth Canham-James

That report showing 1332 in the Planned Learning Hours column directly contradicts what's on the screenshot. We use ProSolution and we don't get that. Also the Calculated Total Planned Hours column (misnomer since it's actually Total Planned Learning Hours, that's a ProSolution mistake), isn't even the sum of the two values in that column. There must be some other hours values for that student somewhere. If you can't work it out, you can always just go and add the correct values on the student manually, and exclude from any further calculations: