QAR - Achievers, Leavers and Completers

I will give it a go but should read the QAR guidance.

Completer - has an actual end date (withdrawal or completer with achievement or no achievement)

Achiever - has an actual end date with a completion status of completed (2) and outcome of achieved (1)

Leaver - has an actual end date with a completion status of completed (2) or withdrawn (3) and will also include those continuing who are indicated as an Overdue Continuing Aim or Overdue Planned Break.

Each of the above will be reported against a hybrid year but it is only those that are reported against the current QAR year that are included in the totals.

HTH

The guidance here may help: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/qualification-achievement-rates-and-minimum-standards

Hi Charlotte Carlin,

Just re-read the QAR business rules and these terms - Leaver, Completer, Achiever - are mysteriously absent. 

They are common terms that we all use but can be misleading in that they allude to being learner statuses when in fact they can be either learners or Enrolments depending on which QAR you are looking at Qualifications, Traineeship or Apprenticeship.

I define the above terms as:

LEAVER - Any Enrolment/Apprentice/trainee that has passed their Qualification period and is not in any of the QAR exclusion categories and has a completion status of 2 (Completed) or 3 (Withdrawn) - and in some cases 6 - i.e. has not returned from a BIL within the allocated time limit.

Completer - Any Enrolment/Apprentice/trainee that has passed their Qualification period and is not in any of the QAR exclusion categories and has a completion status of 2 (Completed) Regardless or outcome

Achiever - Any Enrolment/Apprentice/trainee that has passed their Qualification period and is not in any of the QAR exclusion categories and has a completion status of 2 (Completed) And an Outcome of 1 (Achieved)

HTH

Phil

Thank you both for all for your help, it certainly seems that way Phil Dawe.

I have contacted the ESFA to see if we can get a clear answer, they gave me the below response;

QAR Leavers =  The number of aims that have ended - where they have an actual end date or where continuing learners, planned breaks in learning or transfers did not return
QAR Achievers =  The number of aims achieved. This includes reformed AS levels that are decoupled from the A Level and any cashed pre-reform AS levels (Outcome = 1)
QAR Completers =  The number of aims where the learner has completed all the learning activities (Completion Status = 2)

Hopefully others will find this useful too.

Thanks again :-)

Hi all,

Following on from this thread, an apprentice had a status of continuing, but actual end date entered as they had completed the practical period in 20/21 therefore showing as a leaver in the 20/21 QAR.  They have now achieved, so will this be counted in the 21/22 QAR?

Thanks, Christine