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It's a mess and I feel your pain.
I'd be highly inclined to tell enrolment staff that all Ext Dips are FL3 and not worry about the specifics. It's not like an employer or even UCAS would differentiate would they? So the learner wouldn't lose out for it not being "on the list", more that some people get lucky and can do a second one free?
That's my current thinking. If it looks like a full level 3, record it as a full level 3.
We can manage looking into the specifics for those adults we're assessing for first full level 3, even if we may have a few more of those in Sep with the aims that are going to be available for full funding for 24+.
Ruth Canham-James
21/22 New Prior Attainment Values
Edited
The 21/22 ILR Spec has split the Prior Attainment level 3 into two categories; 5 - Level 3 and 6 - Full Level 3.
Ok, makes sense. We used to record non-level 3 as Level 2, so not much change.
However, within the new definition of 5 - Level 3 is;
- Vocational and technical qualifications at level 3 (not on the level 2 and level 3 legal entitlement list)
- Technical qualifications (part of T levels)
Within the new definition of 6 – Full Level 3 is;
- QCF Diploma Level 3
- NVQ level 3
- Tech Levels which are in the 16-19 Performance Tables
- From 1 August 2015 vocational qualifications of 300 GLH or more that are on the level 2 and level 3 legal entitlement qualification list.
So if we take a student whose highest attainment was 60346656 (BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice), they should be recorded as code 5, because it didn’t have legal entitlements (ESFA have confirmed this).
Working out whether a student’s highest qualification had legal entitlements or not, at point of enrolment, is going to be impossible! Firstly, they won’t know exactly what learning aim they did. The PLR won’t be ready for us to check, they won’t have their certificates, and their statements of results don’t usually specify learning aim. How is everyone managing this? Whatever we do, it’s extremely time consuming to spot this difference.
Also, this means that a 19-23 year old with one of these large, but no legal entitlement, aims as prior attainment can be fully funded to do another level 3. Looking at the rules, that was perhaps allowable this year too? The wording has changed subtly from;
From 1 August 2015 vocational qualifications of 150 GLH or more. These are on the level 2 and level 3 legal entitlement qualification list.
to
From 1 August 2015 vocational qualifications of 150 GLH or more that are on the level 2 and level 3 legal entitlement qualification list.
So two students can have completed L3 Extended Diplomas aged 18, both want to do another full Level 3 (with legal entitlement) in a different subject at 19, and only one is fundable because they happened to do a large level 3 without legal entitlements. We’ve got to try and spot the difference, so we’ll have to check the specific aim they achieved, which will be fun if there’s no PLR (private schools) and their evidence doesn’t specify the learning aim.
Are providers just assuming Extended Diplomas are full for prior attainment purposes, and not worrying about checking legal entitlements?