Glossary

Awarding organisation

The body that designs, assesses and awards a qualification.

In full

Awarding organisations own the qualifications they offer, set the assessment requirements and issue the certificates. Their requirements sit alongside funding requirements and are not the same thing.

Where this comes up

diagnostic

16 to 19 study programmes with planned learning hours but no regulated qualifications

Timetabled hours for non-qualification activity should be recorded in the Planned employability, enrichment, and pastoral hours field. In most cases, young people should be enrolled in learning that leads to: an external certificate offered by a regulated awarding organisation and approved on the DfE list of qualifications approved for funding 14 to 19 a substantial work placement to prepare them for progression to an apprenticeship or other employment a T Level

scenario

An achievement is recorded before the result is confirmed

A tutor is confident a learner has passed and asks for the achievement to be recorded before the awarding organisation confirms it.

diagnostic

Proportion of planned employment, enrichment and pastoral (EEP) hours is 50% or more of total planned hours

In most cases, young people should be enrolled either in learning that leads to: an external certificate offered by a regulated awarding organisation and approved on the DfE list of qualifications approved for funding 14 to 19 a substantial work placement to prepare them for progression to an apprenticeship or other employment a T Level We have excluded students who have self-declared any learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD) or health problems or have been reported as requiring additional support.