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Jun 7, 2022 · Added 'QAR 2021 to 2022 in-year data releases' and 'QAR data extract guidance' for reviewing in-year QAR data based on the common data issues and the data query form for provider queries. 7 June ...
- Overview
- The purpose of QARs
- National achievement rates tables
- Qualification achievement rates guidance
- Checking QAR data in-year
- Provisional QAR data
- How to access QAR data
- Get help with QARs
- Approach to school and college accountability, performance tables and data during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
A comprehensive set of QAR resources to offer information and support for training providers.
Qualification achievement rates (QARs) give one measure of how well further education (FE) colleges and other training organisations perform each year. QARs use individualised learner record data to calculate what proportion of learning was successfully completed and the result is shown as a percentage figure.
QAR uses include:
•national statistics
•monitoring activities such as performance management by funding organisations such as the Education and Skills Funding Agency and Mayoral Combined Authorities.
•self assessment (training organisations analysing their own performance)
QARs are produced for apprenticeships, traineeships, 19+ education and training (Adult Education Budget and Adult Learner Loans) and 16 to 19 programmes reported to the ESFA under Funding Model 25.
QARs are published annually in national achievement rates tables (NARTs), which enable training organisations to benchmark their performance.
Apprenticeships and traineeships NARTs
The QAR guidance consists of 3 key areas: business rules, technical specifications, and QAR data.
2022 to 2023 business rules, technical specification and QAR data guidance
•Business rules that explain how the policy for calculating QARs is implemented for apprenticeships and education and training.
•Technical specifications that define precisely how QARs are calculated, what data is included / excluded and so on.
•QAR in-year data releases and data extract guidance give information on what in-year data is shared and how training organisations can identify and resolve data issues.
Previous QAR guidance:
Although all of the achievement data will not yet have been recorded in the individualised learner record, training organisations get early sight of their data to identify and resolve potential data issues prior to the final ILR collection (R14) that closes in mid-October each year.
The in-year data releases guidance gives examples of common data issues to check for, such as duplicate records, and explains how to resolve them.
It is important that training organisations use this in-year QAR to review their data, as it cannot be changed after the R14 ILR collection. Summary QAR data and a detailed data extract are created:
•in June/July each year using the training organisation’s R10 ILR data
•in August/September each year using the training organisation’s R12 ILR data
In-year data is not published externally, it is only intended for use by training organisations.
Training organisations can view their provisional QAR data in January each year. This gives them a final chance to check that the QAR methodology has been applied correctly. The final QAR data is published in National achievement rate tables in March each year.
Possible errors with the way the methodology has been applied should be reported through the ESFA online enquiry form.
Training organisations access their QAR data through View your education data.
For access, users must have the ‘View Your Education Data - QAR’ role added to their IDAMS account.
The business rules, technical specifications and in-year data release guidance contain all the information needed to understand how QARs are calculated.
General queries should be raised through our online enquiry form, select the QAR query type.
If your enquiry relates to specific learners, you should also complete and submit the QAR data query form.
There is an online forum which training organisations can use to discuss data related queries with other training providers.
In July 2021, it was announced the approach for QARs for 2021 to 2022 will continue to align with that for school and college performance tables.
For the 2021 to 2022 academic year, Education and Training, Apprenticeships and Traineeships QARs will be published at provider level. This is a change from 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021, when we confirmed that we would not publish any provider-level QARs in response to COVID-19.
Full details of the announcement can be found at Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and college accountability 2021 to 2022.
Published 25 January 2023
Last updated 10 January 2024 + show all updates
1.10 January 2024
May 28, 2021 · As confirmed in our guidance, we will not publish any institution-level qualification achievement rates in the national achievement rate tables for the 2020 to 2021 academic year in response to ...
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33 Introduction and purpose of the document. This document provides technical information about how we process information provided in the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data collection to produce the qualification achievement rates (QAR) dataset. This dataset produces the education and training 2021 to 2022 QAR products.
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