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Hannah O'Shea

Apprenticeships - Learner continuing 3 consecutive academic year

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Hi,

We have a learner who started an apprenticeship with a planned duration of 12 months. They are still continuing and are not yet completed, however, this is the third consecutive academic years ILR that they would have appeared in.

We are sure there is a rule about learners only being able to continue for 3 years, but I'm struggling to find this in the rules.

Is someone able to clarify?  And if this rule does exist, is it 3 academic years passed the planned end date?

Many thanks,

Hannah 

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Martin West

As far as I know there is no such rule, not in the funding rules or QAR, I have examples of up to 5 years on a 12 moth programme duration but we do check each year that they are still in learning as we have had occasions in the past where it was said ‘Oh they left years ago’.

Steve Hewitt

As long as they've been in your ILR every year, it's not an issue, it's only where the QAR process can't match a record that they get failed. I don't *think* there's a limit to this (apart from the validation date for the framework/standard).

Hannah O'Shea

Great, thanks for your help both!

 

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