Chris Currie

QAR 2025/26

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Hi

Has anyone noticed some issues with their 2025/26 QAR dataset? I've noticed breaks in learning being included for QAR even where the particular learner has subsequently either withdrawn or achieved after their break? The new learning aims have been recorded correctly as restarts. My understanding is temporary breaks in learning are excluded from QAR. Curious if this has affected any other providers?

Thanks, Chris

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Steve Bowler

Yes I've noticed a batch of those too and have sent the query over to them. So some learners have two records in the 25/26 data, their hold record and their restart record, both counting against the achievement rate. Similar problem with some learners break in learning record showing against our 25/26 data, even though they restarted and finished in 24/25 (and were correctly in our 24/25 data)...

Steve

Chris Currie

Phew... glad to know I'm not losing my mind! Thanks Steve, will put our queries in then too as we have exactly the same issues you've referenced.

Chris

Steve Hewitt

"thanks for that"! Also a bunch of BIL inclusions here, definitely something up...

Jodie Cataldo

Thanks for highlighting this, having checked we have similar issues with our QAR data

Chris Currie

We've logged a ticket referencing the affected ULN's on the helpdesk and notified our account manager to flag internally if this hasn't been picked up already by the data team so worth doing that then the more tickets they get, the more of a priority they should make it.

Thanks

Jodie Cataldo

Does anyone else have learning actual end dates with DD/MM/9999? I think that may be part of the issue!!

Chris Currie

Yes we have actual end dates with 30/12/9999 but they are all assigned a hybrid end year of XXXX.5 which means they are not assigned a defined QAR year yet (as they are still on programme) - I suspect the actual end date field cannot be blank hence this is just the way the dataset is structured, so this is unlikely to be the cause.

Jessica De Melo

Jodie Cataldo yes we have a withdrawal with actual end date 30/12/9999