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
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.
scenario
Results arrive after the final return has closed
A batch of awarding organisation results for last year arrives in November, after the final return closed. What can be done?
diagnostic
An aim has ended but no outcome has been recorded
The aim has an actual end date, so the system knows it finished, but nothing records whether the learner achieved it. The achievement rate calculation treats an aim with no achievement recorded as a non-achievement.
module
The data quality routine that prevents most problems
A small number of checks, run every month without exception, prevent the majority of funding, performance and audit problems in further education.
scenario
Evidence for subcontracted delivery cannot be produced
A subcontractor delivers provision the college claims for. When evidence is requested, the subcontractor is slow to provide it.