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Emma Barker

Achieved GCSE November resit at previous school!

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Please could anyone advise on how to correctly record in the ILR someone that has a prior attainment of Grade 3 GCSE English Language, who is studying and attending GCSE lessons. The student then, unknown to the college produces a certificate to say that they sat a resit at their previous school and achieved a grade 4.  
The ILR Spec states that you cannot change their prior attainment grade and should not be updated in year.
Reading the COF rules, does rule 10.5 apply and which FAM field should be updated?
10.5 Students achieving a GCSE or equivalent outside of their study programme or T Level
If a student achieves a GCSE grade 9 to 4 or a qualification deemed as equivalent by other means, then they will have met the condition of funding for the remainder of their programme. This also applies to students with prior attainment of GCSE grade 2 or below who pass Functional Skills level 2. Institutions must make sure that they update their data return with GCSE achievement grades or the Functional Skills code in the funding and monitoring (FAM) field, as appropriate, to tell us that the student has met the condition of funding.
 
TIA

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Josh Hough

I'm curious about this too. Back in 2021 this got posted:

Hi Luke.

I was advised to switch the student to meeting the condition of funding, update their grades on entry, exclude the GCSE enrolment from the ILR but keep their planned hours (we add them as EEP) as the intention was always to teach the student and you will have some register evidence to prove that. You should not claim the achievement but at least this way it doesn't negatively impact your achievement rates or potentially move the students to a lower funding band.

Further education and training providers community - GCSE Resit Achievements

But I don't know if this is still up to date

Steve Hewitt

Hmmmmmmmmm, not sure about that...

The last time I asked the advice was to withdraw the learner in our ILR (as, presumably, they'll stop going to classes) and update the grade on entry but that was around the same time as the quoted post...

Josh Hough

I asked the helpdesk who said what you did Steve, that the GCSE aim should be withdrawn and the grade on entry updated.

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