Glossary
Qualification level
The position of a qualification on the regulated qualifications framework, from entry level upwards.
In full
Levels place qualifications on a common scale. Level affects eligibility for several entitlements and determines which funding arrangements can apply.
Where this comes up
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A qualification is withdrawn part way through the year
A qualification the college is delivering stops being available for new starts. Existing learners continue, new ones cannot.
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Qualification achievement rates: how your data becomes your results
Achievement rates are calculated from the ILR. Understanding the cohort is what turns an unexplained rate into an explainable one.
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16 to 19 funding: how the formula actually works
Student numbers, band, national rate, retention, programme cost weighting and uplifts. Where each element comes from, and which of them your own data controls.
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How further education funding actually works
Colleges are not paid a block grant for teaching. They are funded through several separate streams, each with its own rules, and each earned by recording delivery in the ILR.
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Planned hours: what counts and how to evidence it
Planned hours set the funding band and therefore the rate for the whole year. What may be counted, what must be evidenced, and how to reconcile hours to a timetable.
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The anatomy of the ILR
What is actually inside the Individualised Learner Record: the entities, how they nest, and which fields carry the funding.