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There is no guidance for reducing the duration as it may be dependent on a set delivery timescale or already at the 12 month minim duration but where RPL results in an overall shorter duration in the learning plan it should be reduced by that amount.
Validation rules allows an entry of O weeks reduction in duration where required
HTH
I think I'm still confused. A skill scan shows prior knowledge of 6% for one of our new apprentices due to start in September. After a full discussion with him it is evident that his skills lie with plumbing and not gas engineering. There is very little we can RPL in terms of actual training done against training to be done in the apprenticeship, however historically we have reduced by (in this case) funding and duration by 6%. While he will have some basic behaviour experience and skills such as use of PPE other than that all training must be delivered. BPEC the awarding body are willing to look at RPL from plumbing to gas on a case by case basis but have said that 'for example; even though they cover the LCS within DPH-001, the jointing methods for gas may be different as an example, if they were to use boss and hemp on water, this is not permitted on gas etc so would still need to be covered.
What we would want to do is deliver all the training in the qualification we are using to meet the Apprenticeship Standard, as it has been specifically designed for this and is needed to meet occupational competency. That being said, I am happy to reduce funding by 3% if that is required to meet the funding rules.
I just don't want to make a costly mistake.
Nicola McCallum
P25.5.2 - reduce total price
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I'm looking for clarification on P25.5.2. Am I right in understanding if the RPL calculation is say 10%, you reduce duration and funding by 5%, whereas before the new rules you would have reduced by the full 10%? Also, if this calculates duration as 74.6 weeks then you would round down to 74 weeks? Is it always round down or in some cases do you round up like the maths rule of rounding up over 0.5?