Describing Performance Table Qualifications (Conditions PTQ6 and PTQ7)

Rules about assigning levels, Guided Learning and Total Qualification Time to Performance Table Qualifications

Condition PTQ6: Levels

  1. PTQ6.1 An awarding organisation must assign one or both of the following levels to each Technical Award which it makes available, or proposes to make available, and assign the same level or levels to each Component of that qualification –
    1. (a) Level 1.
    2. (b) Level 2.

Condition PTQ7: Total Qualification Time

  1. PTQ7.1 In respect of each Performance Table Qualification that it makes available, or proposes to make available, an awarding organisation must –
    1. (a) design that qualification such that the number of hours for Guided Learning will be at least that specified by Ofqual from time to time,
    2. (b) based on its design, assign to that qualification the appropriate number of hours for Guided Learning, and
    3. (c) assign to that qualification a number of hours for Total Qualification Time by applying the TQT Criteria.
  2. PTQ7.2 An awarding organisation must –
    1. (a) keep under review the number of hours it has assigned to each Performance Table Qualification for each of Total Qualification Time and Guided Learning,
    2. (b) in particular, review the numbers of hours assigned following any revision to –
      1. (i) the number of hours for Guided Learning specified by Ofqual under Condition PTQ7.1(a), or
      2. (ii) the TQT Criteria, and
    3. (c) revise the number of hours that the awarding organisation has assigned, if appropriate.
  3. PTQ7.3 Following any review by Ofqual of the number of hours assigned to a Performance Table Qualification in respect of Total Qualification Time or Guided Learning, an awarding organisation must revise that number in any manner required by Ofqual.

Interpretation

  1. PTQ7.4 For the purposes of this Condition, references to a ‘qualification’ are references to the qualification as a whole and not to individual units.

Number of hours of Guided Learning

Condition PTQ7.1(a) allows us to specify a number of hours for Guided Learning in relation to Technical Awards. We set out our specification for the purposes of Condition PTQ7.1(a) below.

For the purposes of Condition PTQ7.1(a) an awarding organisation must design each of its Technical Awards such that the number of hours for Guided Learning will be at least 120 hours.