What circumstances contributed to the appearance of the ‘duplicate records’?
The calculation of providers’ Qualification Success Rate (QSR) was amended in the 08/09 version to match records on the start date of a learning aim rather than start year. This was in order to improve the accuracy of the identification and matching of learning aim records spanning multiple academic years on the same programme. Rules by which the data was matched utilised existing ILR guidance. b) Some providers had not been sufficiently quality controlling their data to comply with this standard and since this had not been previously used in any statistics returned to the provider in the past this lack of data quality control had gone unnoticed. c) The publishing of the QSR learner responsive methodology in mid-December 2009 left providers with little time to discover any anomalies in their data that would be affected by the change in methodology prior to the hard close date of F05 on 15th January 2010.
