Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 15 January 2026 09:54

Apprentice paying for content?

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, If an apprentice willingly pays for content, access to courses etc that will help with OTJ for their apprenticeship are they allowed to claim it as OTJ?  I know the funding rules are clear ...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 14 October 2025 14:52

PDSAT Dashboard- file failing

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, Is anyone having a issue creating PDSAT reports? I have tried a few files on the PDSAT dashboard but my file has failed ? I'm not sure why, the file runs through FIS fine, no schema errors....

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 10 June 2024 11:53

Maternity/KIT RTL Query

1. Further education and training providers

Hi, I am wondering if anyone could help with this query. We have a learner who is on maternity , technically the maternity ends 20/06/2024 but they are taking a further month annual leave and won't...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 20 November 2023 15:07

Non English Postcodes- 50% working hours

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, If, at the start of the apprenticeship,  a learner advises that they will meet the 50% requirement (at least 50% working hours completed in England) but does not meet this requirement what ...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 27 October 2023 08:35

Redundancy- 12 weeks

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, I recently read through some guidance which has confused me. It says: 1) Redundant apprentices can continue with their off-the-job training for at least 12 weeks while they look for another...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 06 September 2023 11:57

Change of employer- BIL

1. Further education and training providers

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any guidance/advice regarding the process for changing employer? In particular, now a BIL is used if there's over a 30 days gap i'm confused as to what in-learning ...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 18 May 2023 10:16

Audit Sampler- FIS File

1. Further education and training providers

Hi, I've managed to get the audit sampler running on the new PDSAT dashboard and i have a query. You can choose the size of the sample, does anyone know why this is? I work for a large provider so ...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 11 May 2023 12:33

FIS Upload to PDSAT

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, Can i please just ask what file people are using when uploading FIS to the new PDSAT dashboard? The guidance is pretty vague.  You can only upload a zip file so I've tried zipping all the r...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 08 September 2022 12:39

Visa Eligibility

1. Further education and training providers

Hi All, Hoping  I can get some views on this. We have a learner who has submitted his Visa application and claims that because of the submission he has the right to work until such time as a decis...

Jennifer Donnellan created a post, 02 August 2022 14:58

Teacher Apprenticeship -OTJ in summer?

1. Further education and training providers

Hi, I'm just looking for clarification for teachers. We have a learner who is seeking to do some learning over the summer holidays, since they are a teacher this would essentially be their time off...